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Re: add "%J" for diagnostics (Redux. Positional format specifier for diagnostic)
Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:
| On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:32:56AM +0900, Chiaki wrote:
| > The code which I think is missing is NOT in diagnostic.c but
| > in pretty-print.c: Namely shouldn't we add
| > case 'J': before (or immediately after)
| > case 'H' in pp_base_format_text() in pretty-print.c?
No.
| Perhaps. I don't think this can ever be used, due to the
| bits in diagnostic.c that discards text up to the %H.
| Which is perhaps another bug.
why do you think it would be a bug? %H inside a texte is hanlded as
file <filename, line <line number>
%J as I understand it is used to change the location prefix, therefore
it cannot appear inside a text. Probably a comment to that effect
should be added.
-- Gaby