Line number question

Dave Raggett dave_raggett@hotmail.com
Thu Dec 28 21:13:00 GMT 2000


I mean gcc's some declaration 's line number will be wrong
because preprocessor had merged some lines though these lines were
in one semantic line. the line number generated by gcc is not as same
as it's original  line number in souce file.

>From: "Dave Raggett" <dave_raggett@hotmail.com>
>To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>Subject: Line number question
>Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 03:37:34 -0000
>
>The g++ front end 's preprocessor will merges line in function
>skip_escaped_newlines
>,why not do it at c++ compiler?
>
>look at these codes
>int Myother;//line number  is 1
>int My\
>xyz=1;int i=2;
>
>The line number of Declaration 'i' will be 2.but it's lineno in source file
>is 3.
>
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