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Re: integral location_t


Richard Henderson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:56:41AM +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:

ability to obtain a line-id corresponding to filename without line
number (whether this maps directly from line-id -> line_id or from
filename to line-id, I'm not sure, I suspect the former might be better).
What purpose does this serve?
I recall a usefulness somewhere. Ah, in cp/decl.c, pop_label. It can
be changed to refer to the start of the current function or something.
Scratch this requirement.


*) ability to create new line-id's 'off the end' of the main input file(s)
(so artificial functions such as static_initialization..., have unique
line numbers)
Since the library won't have any notion of how many lines
are in the input files, it won't know what's off the end.
mm, I thought the line map stuff had a concept of greatest line number
reached

*) the ability to map a line-id to a translation unit might already be
needed for the multiple-translation unit mode, and probably would be when
C++'s export is implemented
What purpose does this serve?  I don't even know what mapping
line-id to "translation unit" means.
This is possible a front-end thing. I thought the multiple TU mode
checked the ODR and would need to indicate TU's in the error messages.
I know the Edison Design Group C++ FE does that.  However, such problems
concern declarations, so something could be done with them, rather than
all line-id's.  Given that we both are not entirely sure what this means,
I guess it'd be bad to implement it!

nathan

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