From a4d42970444942cc17e6139ef3874e54dafb10ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Gvozdev <angvoz.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:59:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bug 287098: Empty external location showing up in Problems
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---
 .../src/org/eclipse/cdt/core/resources/ACBuilder.java         | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/core/resources/ACBuilder.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/core/resources/ACBuilder.java
index 591f47e4912..daf6bed3b67 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/core/resources/ACBuilder.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/core/resources/ACBuilder.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public abstract class ACBuilder extends IncrementalProjectBuilder implements IMa
 			 * Try to find matching markers and don't put in duplicates
 			 */
 			String externalLocation = null;
-			if (problemMarkerInfo.externalPath != null) {
+			if (problemMarkerInfo.externalPath != null && ! problemMarkerInfo.externalPath.isEmpty()) {
 				externalLocation = problemMarkerInfo.externalPath.toOSString();
 			}
 			if ((cur != null) && (cur.length > 0)) {
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ public abstract class ACBuilder extends IncrementalProjectBuilder implements IMa
 				String locationText = NLS.bind(CCorePlugin.getResourceString("ACBuilder.ProblemsView.Location"), //$NON-NLS-1$
 						problemMarkerInfo.lineNumber, externalLocation);
 				marker.setAttribute(IMarker.LOCATION, locationText);
+			} else if (problemMarkerInfo.lineNumber==0){
+				marker.setAttribute(IMarker.LOCATION, " "); //$NON-NLS-1$
 			}
 		}
 		catch (CoreException e) {