[fpc-devel] possibility to include compiler info (line number) as integer rather than string

[Seth Grover]

Quoting http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu38.html

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the {$INCLUDE} directive inserts a string constant in the source code.

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LINE
    Linenumer on which the directive is found.
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How hard would it be for me to modify the FPC preprocessor to add an
option (INTLINE or something) to insert a numeric constant in the
source code rather than a string constant?

If that would be doable, could anyone give me a pointer on where in
the source code I'd look to begin? I haven't delved much into that
realm of the compiler's code as of yet.

Thanks,

-SG



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