Line number question

[Neil Booth]

Dave Raggett wrote:-

> 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.

I believe GCC has always done this.

Anyway, I really don't think it's worth worrying about unduly.

Neil.