compiler messages suggestion/feature request

[440bx]

Hello,

I normally get hundreds upon hundreds of compiler messages when compiling a project.

There are so many messages that it becomes impractical to review them.

I'd like Lazarus to sort the messages by type, that is, group all the "hints" together, "Notes" together, "Warnings" together.   and within each group sort by line number (that can be accomplished simply by aligning the messages then sorting the text starting at the alignment column (very simple sort.)

Also, the compiler stuff that is at the top would be nice to have at the bottom.  Just FYI, I had to delete a good number of messages because with all the messages the post exceeds the maximum number of characters.

Comments welcome.

Here is the output of what I'd like to see from Lazarus:

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1. Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2-r0d122c49 [2024/03/17] for x86_64
2. Copyright (c) 1993-2021 by Florian Klaempfl and others
3. (1021) 17 warning(s) issued
4. (3104) Compiling ZydisInfoG.lpr
5. (3104) Compiling ErrorHandler.pas
6. (3104) Compiling winapi.pas
7. (1002) Target OS: Win64 for x64
8. (1022) 155 hint(s) issued
9. (3104) Compiling winmessages.pas
10. (3104) Compiling Zydis.pas
11. (3104) Compiling Resource.pas
12. (9015) Linking H:\Dev\ZyDis\ZydisInfo\ZydisInfoG\ZydisInfoG.x64.exe
13. (1008) 77940 lines compiled, 1.3 sec, 109728 bytes code, 5172 bytes data
14. (1023) 76 note(s) issued
15.  
16. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
17. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
18. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
19. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
20. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
21. <filename>  Hint: (5024) Parameter "InIID" not used
22. <filename>  Hint: (5024) Parameter "InKeyState" not used
23. <filename>  Hint: (5024) Parameter "InParamL" not used
24. <filename>  Hint: (5024) Parameter "OutObj" not used
25. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "AccessedFlagsMask" is not used
26. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Address" is not used
27. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "AlignTo" is not used
28. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Dc" is not used
29. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Decoder" is not used
30. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "FlagIdx" is not used
31. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "FlagsSectionMetrics" is not used
32. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Font" is not used
33. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "FormatterStyle" is not used
34. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "HeadingId" is not used
35. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "HeadingLine" is not used
36. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Instruction" is not used
37. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Instruction" is not used
38. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionBytes" is not used
39. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionBytesDistances" is not used
40. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionCharsMetrics" is not used
41. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionIndexSequential" is not used
42. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionLine" is not used
43. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionsTbl" is not used
44. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionsTbl" is not used
45. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionsUniqueIndex" is not used
46. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionsUniqueIndexCount" is not used
47. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ModuleAddress" is not used
48. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "NtHeadersAddress32" is not used
49. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Operands" is not used
50. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "OperandsSectionMetrics" is not used
51. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "OutputPoint" is not used
52. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "OutputSegmentLabels" is not used
53. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintResources" is not used
54. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintedLinesCount" is not used
55. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintedLinesCount" is not used
56. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintedLinesCount" is not used
57. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintedLinesCount" is not used
58. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PeData" is not used
59. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PeData" is not used
60. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PeData" is not used
61. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PeData" is not used
62. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ProgramData" is not used
63. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ProgramData" is not used
64. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ProgramData" is not used
65. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ProgramData" is not used
66. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "RuntimeFunctions" is not used
67. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "RuntimeFunctionsTable" is not used
68. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "RuntimeFunctionsTableCount" is not used
69. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SegmentName" is not used
70. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SegmentOutputPoint" is not used
71. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Source" is not used
72. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SourceTable" is not used
73. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SourceTable" is not used
74. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SourceTable" is not used
75. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Token" is not used
76. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "WM_MOUSEWHEEL_PARAM_L" is not used
77. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "WindowClass" is not used
78. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Wnd" is not used
79. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "X" is not used
80. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ZydisInfo" is not used
81. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
82. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
83. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
84. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
85. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
86. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
87. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
88. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "COLOR_TYPECAST" is not used
89. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_INTEL_ABSOLUTE" is not used
90. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_INTEL_INVARIANT" is not used
91. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_INTEL_RELATIVE" is not used
92. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_UNUSED_ACCEPTS_REPE" is not used
93. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_UNUSED_ACCEPTS_REPNE" is not used
94. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_UNUSED_HAS_REPE" is not used
95. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_UNUSED_HAS_REPNE" is not used
96. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "SUB_ESP_NUMBER" is not used
97. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "color_aqua_bright4" is not used
98. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "color_pink_bright5" is not used
99. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "color_pink_bright8" is not used
100. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "color_purple_bright5" is not used
101. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local proc "PrintTokenizedInstruction" is not used
102. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local proc "ZYAN_BITS_TO_REPRESENT" is not used
103. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local proc "ZYAN_MAKE_STATUS" is not used
104. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local type "PATTRIBUTES_MAP" is not used
105. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local type "TINSTRUCTION_INPUT" is not used
106. <filename>  Note: (3031) Values in enumeration types have to be ascending
107. <filename>  Note: (3031) Values in enumeration types have to be ascending
108. <filename>  Note: (3031) Values in enumeration types have to be ascending
109. <filename>  Note: (3031) Values in enumeration types have to be ascending
110. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "AbsoluteAddress" is assigned but never used
111. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "CodeNext" is assigned but never used
112. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "FilenameLen" is assigned but never used
113. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "FilenameLen" is assigned but never used
114. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "Offset" is assigned but never used
115. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "PatternSize" is assigned but never used
116. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "Status" is assigned but never used
117. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "ThreadId" is assigned but never used
118. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "buf" is assigned but never used
119. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "hr" is assigned but never used
120. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "hr" is assigned but never used
121. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "i" is assigned but never used
122. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "sprintf_buffer" is assigned but never used
123. <filename>  Warning: (4044) Comparison might be always false due to range of constant and expression
124. <filename>  Warning: (4044) Comparison might be always false due to range of constant and expression
125. <filename>  Warning: (4044) Comparison might be always false due to range of constant and expression
126. <filename>  Warning: (4110) range check error while evaluating constants (2147942487 must be between -2147483648 and 2147483647)
127. <filename>  Warning: (4110) range check error while evaluating constants (2147942487 must be between -2147483648 and 2147483647)
128. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
129. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
130. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
131. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
132. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
133. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
134. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutFlagsSectionMetrics" does not seem to be initialized
135. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutInstructionIndexSequential" does not seem to be initialized
136. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutInstructionsOptimizedIndex" does not seem to be initialized
137. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutInstructionsTbl" does not seem to be initialized
138. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutInstructionsUniqueIndex" does not seem to be initialized
139.  

[MarkMLl]

Use Lazbuild and filter the output using Perl. https://github.com/MarkMLl/fpclaz_build_scripts does something vaguely similar, in the context of finding where each source file is.

MarkMLl

[Thaddy]

We don't need perl for that, we have supersort, which does that trick.

[440bx]

Use Lazbuild and filter the output using Perl.

The problem with "outside solutions" such as using Perl is that you can no longer click on the message to have Lazarus display the line in the editor window.  IOW, making any corrections to the code becomes laborious.

That's the problem with the current output.  The unorganized pile of messages makes it really time consuming to inspect the messages in order to determine which ones need attention.  Having the messages grouped by "severity"/type would really help.  Another thing that would help enormously would be to have the text of the messages left justified.  This would require determining the widest/longest filename but it's easy and only a minimal amount of additional work.

[PascalDragon]

I'd like Lazarus to sort the messages by type, that is, group all the "hints" together, "Notes" together, "Warnings" together.   and within each group sort by line number (that can be accomplished simply by aligning the messages then sorting the text starting at the alignment column (very simple sort.)

Please note that there are sometimes occations that a followup, but related message has a different verbosity: E.g. when you have multiple overloads available the message that an overload could not be determined will have verbosity error and the followup list of found candidates will have verbosity hint.
This could lead to confusion, so this should at least not be done by default. Or maybe it could be done with category speed buttons so that one can enable/disable certain verbosities? So if you want to only see warnings you could simply disable all other verbosities?

[440bx]

Please note that there are sometimes occations that a followup, but related message has a different verbosity: E.g. when you have multiple overloads available the message that an overload could not be determined will have verbosity error and the followup list of found candidates will have verbosity hint.
This could lead to confusion, so this should at least not be done by default. Or maybe it could be done with category speed buttons so that one can enable/disable certain verbosities? So if you want to only see warnings you could simply disable all other verbosities?

I think you exposed an interesting possibility but, I think that most developers would focus on the errors first and recompile until there are no errors reported and only after there are no errors are the other messages inspected. 

At least, that's the way I do it.  Whenever I see errors, I take care of those first, ignoring everything else.  Once the errors are gone then I look at the remaining messages.

I am in complete agreement that having the messages arranged in the way I am requesting/suggestion should be a user-controlled option using some mechanism - category speed buttons sounds good to me.

[n7800]

I don't think you tried right-clicking... (see attachment). I bet you didn't know that this window even has search and save to file. But I agree that these commands are almost "hidden" - they should be displayed in the toolbar.

Information about filtering and other features is also listed in the wiki. I recently even wrote a patch to add shortcuts for some commands (including the filter commands), which should make it easier to view messages.

[440bx]

I bet you didn't know that this window even has search and save to file.

You're right, I didn't know that.  This is useful stuff to know.

Thank you!

[ackarwow]

Hi @440bx,

So many hints and warnings suggest that the code is not of very good quality:

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1. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
2. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
3. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
4. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
5. <filename>  Hint: (4055) Conversion between ordinals and pointers is not portable
6. <filename>  Hint: (5024) Parameter "InIID" not used
7. <filename>  Hint: (5024) Parameter "InKeyState" not used
8. <filename>  Hint: (5024) Parameter "InParamL" not used
9. <filename>  Hint: (5024) Parameter "OutObj" not used
10. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "AccessedFlagsMask" is not used
11. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Address" is not used
12. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "AlignTo" is not used
13. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Dc" is not used
14. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Decoder" is not used
15. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "FlagIdx" is not used
16. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "FlagsSectionMetrics" is not used
17. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Font" is not used
18. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "FormatterStyle" is not used
19. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "HeadingId" is not used
20. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "HeadingLine" is not used
21. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Instruction" is not used
22. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Instruction" is not used
23. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionBytes" is not used
24. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionBytesDistances" is not used
25. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionCharsMetrics" is not used
26. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionIndexSequential" is not used
27. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionLine" is not used
28. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionsTbl" is not used
29. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionsTbl" is not used
30. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionsUniqueIndex" is not used
31. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "InstructionsUniqueIndexCount" is not used
32. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ModuleAddress" is not used
33. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "NtHeadersAddress32" is not used
34. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Operands" is not used
35. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "OperandsSectionMetrics" is not used
36. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "OutputPoint" is not used
37. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "OutputSegmentLabels" is not used
38. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintResources" is not used
39. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintedLinesCount" is not used
40. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintedLinesCount" is not used
41. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintedLinesCount" is not used
42. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PaintedLinesCount" is not used
43. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PeData" is not used
44. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PeData" is not used
45. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PeData" is not used
46. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "PeData" is not used
47. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ProgramData" is not used
48. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ProgramData" is not used
49. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ProgramData" is not used
50. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ProgramData" is not used
51. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "RuntimeFunctions" is not used
52. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "RuntimeFunctionsTable" is not used
53. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "RuntimeFunctionsTableCount" is not used
54. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SegmentName" is not used
55. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SegmentOutputPoint" is not used
56. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Source" is not used
57. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SourceTable" is not used
58. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SourceTable" is not used
59. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "SourceTable" is not used
60. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Token" is not used
61. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "WM_MOUSEWHEEL_PARAM_L" is not used
62. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "WindowClass" is not used
63. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "Wnd" is not used
64. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "X" is not used
65. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "ZydisInfo" is not used
66. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
67. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
68. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
69. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
70. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
71. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
72. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local absolutevar "dc" is not used
73. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "COLOR_TYPECAST" is not used
74. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_INTEL_ABSOLUTE" is not used
75. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_INTEL_INVARIANT" is not used
76. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_INTEL_RELATIVE" is not used
77. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_UNUSED_ACCEPTS_REPE" is not used
78. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_UNUSED_ACCEPTS_REPNE" is not used
79. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_UNUSED_HAS_REPE" is not used
80. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "LABEL_UNUSED_HAS_REPNE" is not used
81. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "SUB_ESP_NUMBER" is not used
82. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "color_aqua_bright4" is not used
83. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "color_pink_bright5" is not used
84. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "color_pink_bright8" is not used
85. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local const "color_purple_bright5" is not used
86. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local proc "PrintTokenizedInstruction" is not used
87. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local proc "ZYAN_BITS_TO_REPRESENT" is not used
88. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local proc "ZYAN_MAKE_STATUS" is not used
89. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local type "PATTRIBUTES_MAP" is not used
90. <filename>  Hint: (5028) Local type "TINSTRUCTION_INPUT" is not used
91. <filename>  Note: (3031) Values in enumeration types have to be ascending
92. <filename>  Note: (3031) Values in enumeration types have to be ascending
93. <filename>  Note: (3031) Values in enumeration types have to be ascending
94. <filename>  Note: (3031) Values in enumeration types have to be ascending
95. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "AbsoluteAddress" is assigned but never used
96. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "CodeNext" is assigned but never used
97. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "FilenameLen" is assigned but never used
98. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "FilenameLen" is assigned but never used
99. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "Offset" is assigned but never used
100. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "PatternSize" is assigned but never used
101. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "Status" is assigned but never used
102. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "ThreadId" is assigned but never used
103. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "buf" is assigned but never used
104. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "hr" is assigned but never used
105. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "hr" is assigned but never used
106. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "i" is assigned but never used
107. <filename>  Note: (5027) Local variable "sprintf_buffer" is assigned but never used
108. <filename>  Warning: (4044) Comparison might be always false due to range of constant and expression
109. <filename>  Warning: (4044) Comparison might be always false due to range of constant and expression
110. <filename>  Warning: (4044) Comparison might be always false due to range of constant and expression
111. <filename>  Warning: (4110) range check error while evaluating constants (2147942487 must be between -2147483648 and 2147483647)
112. <filename>  Warning: (4110) range check error while evaluating constants (2147942487 must be between -2147483648 and 2147483647)
113. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
114. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
115. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
116. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
117. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
118. <filename>  Warning: (5036) Local variable "Y" does not seem to be initialized
119. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutFlagsSectionMetrics" does not seem to be initialized
120. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutInstructionIndexSequential" does not seem to be initialized
121. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutInstructionsOptimizedIndex" does not seem to be initialized
122. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutInstructionsTbl" does not seem to be initialized
123. <filename>  Warning: (5037) Variable "OutInstructionsUniqueIndex" does not seem to be initialized
124.  

I think the problem here is the code and not the messages area.

[440bx]

Hi @440bx,

So many hints and warnings suggest that the code is not of very good quality:

I think the problem here is the code and not the messages area.

Figure out why the declarations are there.

[Thaddy]

Hints and notes can be ignored, although hints may be an indication.
It is safe to add {$hints off}{$notes off} at the top of your unit or program. It does not affect code.
Warnings, however, should be solved in most cases. Only warnings suggest possibly bad code.

[n7800]

Hints and notes can be ignored, although hints may be an indication.

Unfortunately, the line between "notes" and "hints" is very conditional, it is even directly stated in the documentation (last line).

It is safe to add {$hints off}{$notes off} at the top of your unit or program. It does not affect code.

All hints/notes can be disabled in the project settings, without having to change the source code. You can even customize the display of each type of message.

In general, there is a good article about ways to ignore/filter compiler messages. Despite the abundance of methods, there is no filtering method specified there via the Message Window or the compiler configuration file. If I find time, I will supplement it.