[fpc-pascal] Get all caller adresses of a procedure/function

[Martin]

On 07/08/2012 08:22, Rainer Stratmann wrote:
> Am Tuesday 07 August 2012 00:02:02 schrieb Martin:
>> I still do not understand what is so special about the caller address?
>> Furthermore, you said yourself, you do not need it. You can also live
>> withe a "number that the compiler generates at compilation time".
> With all caller adresses OR all numbers (see down) I have the whole amount of
> snippets that I want to have.
How?

I can see 2 ways you get that address

procedure p (snip:string);
begin
   calleraddr := get_caller_addr(); //needs to be implemented
   ......
end

      OR
procedure p (snip:string, caller_addr:pointer);
....
and when calling
p('hello world', get_my_addr()); // needs to be implemented

*** BUT
then you run your app. You collect maybe (for example) 42 addresses with 
snippets

How do you know that is all of them? There may be places that call p() 
but that where not executed. Then you do not have that address, so you 
do not know it is missing

> The caller adress is a unique identifier.
> A handle.
**IF** each snippet is unique (that is if each text exists only once) 
Then the text itself can be used as a unique ID

yes it is longer, and compares slower, but a hash table can solve that

>> so if you had
>> p(next_compile_time_number, 'text');
> I do not write something about 'next_compile_time_number'.
> My words were 'incremented counter at compiletime'.
> That means the counter increases immediately after every occurence in the
> sourcecode.
That is what I meant: Take  'next_compile_time_number' as a macro or 
preprocesser driective

Now in that case, if you know the highest number (but you do not know 
it), you would be able to check completness

>> then all p gets is 109, 'text'
>> if that 109 does help, why not the address of the 1st char?
>>
>>
>> ---
>> I know there is still something about your idea that I havent got....
>> which makes this a bit hard.
> I want to have all caller adresses of s() before s() is called.
what do you mean before s is called?

You want the compiler (at compile time) to build a table (array) of all 
places that call p, so you can check if they called?
That is something you never said (or I missed it)

>> Lets take a step back:
>>
>> Why do you not just store all snippets in a stringlist, if p saw them?
> I do it.
> But I need the information which snippet was not called yet.
> That is all I want.
See above. I have yet to know, how that works with the caller address