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Re: [RFC] GCC caret diagnostics
On 08/03/2008, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Perhaps I was mistaken to state an implementation preference this
> early, anyway. It would be fine by me to have an implementation that
> works in any reasonable way. If the "don't free" approach proves too
> costly, with sane API design we will know we can always rip it out and
> go with "reopen and seek".
>
Well, like Jan said, there is no much API design going on here because
we just need to pass an extra "offset" every time we put a new line in
the line_map and retrieve a pointer to a string from a source
location. I think all potential implementations will work with such
API.
Cheers,
Manuel.