highlight and filter (gcc) compiler messages

Question

i\'m currently refactoring a C-project, throwing about 1000 warnings at me. is there a way to highlight and filter these warnings. (eg make all index warnings red, unused bl

Answer 1

The warn_summary script is pretty nice

You can get a count of all your warnings, the type and also just print out the warnings without all the other output from gcc.

gcc <...> | tee buildoutput
warn_summary -s 0 -wpass buildoutput
warn_summary -s 0 buildoutput