Language-independent functions-as-trees representation

[Neil Booth]

Robert Dewar wrote:-

> Of course! That's why my message said 4 gigabytes of sources and not
> four gigalines.
> 
> But Four thousand million characrters of sourcers is a heck of a lot.
> This is typically a hundred million lines of source. I doubt there are
> any programs in existence where a single compilation requires a hundred
> million lines of source!

Figuring out line numbers is painful if all you have is a character
offset into the preprocessed source, or something similar.

Neil.