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[Bug c++/49973] Column numbers count special characters as multiple columns
- From: "timothy003 at msn dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:37:25 +0000
- Subject: [Bug c++/49973] Column numbers count special characters as multiple columns
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- References: <bug-49973-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49973
--- Comment #2 from Timothy Liang <timothy003 at msn dot com> 2011-08-04 10:36:53 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Depends on how the column numbers are defined. I think gcc uses bytes from the
> beginning of the line, then 12 is correct (and e.g. for tab characters gcc
> counts them as one instead of 1-8 depending on position too).
That isn't the case here. Substituting the 'ä' for another character makes the
column number 10. Setting -finput-charset=latin1 makes the column number 15.