Perhaps, I don't really program much c/c++. but in my experience most of the subsequent errors are due to the first error. So even where there might be several places I could fix the code my standard operating practice is to find the first error, fix that and see what it cleans up.

But like I said, I am not much of a C programmer. The compiler authors feel strongly about pushing past all possible errors and keep doing it so perhaps there is merit to this practice. but it bugs the heck out of me.