Re: change the location_t type, DECL_SOURCE_LINE etc

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Fergus Henderson wrote:
> The C code generated by the Mercury compiler is going to overflow
> those limits, I think.
> Currently the longest C file generated by the Mercury compiler
> is about 600,000 lines long (20,000,000 bytes).
That means that file might need to grab ceiling(600,000/(1<<14))
= 37 number of file_indexes.  There leaves still 986 available.

> The longest line is about 2300 characters.
Column numbers would probably not be very useful for generated C code.

> There are up to about 750 header files.
Perhaps file_index should be increased to 11 or 12 bits, and rline
reduced to 13 or 12 bits.  Or reduce the bits for rcolumn - it will
often just be 0 anyway.  That allows more flexibility.

In any case, it appears to me that line numbers in such C code are
useless except to debug the Mercury compiler itself.  Line numbers
relative to the C code would be useless for debugging Mercury code.
I assume you emit #line directives, in which case the size of
the C code is irrelevant.

If we start storing column numbers, I think i makes sense to disable
column numbers after a #line directive.
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