[fpc-devel] How to manually control debug information

[Peter Vreman]

>>>Since preprocessed code isn't read by human, why don't change it into
>>>
>>>procedure AddFive(var a, b: Integer);
>>>begin
>>>  Inc(b); a := b;
>>>end;
>>>
>>>The compiler don't care and you get correct line numbers.
>>
>>
>> Clever! But won't the compiler care if a line gets too long?
>
> No. The compiler itself doesn't care about line length.

Only you'll get wrong values for the column if the line is longer than
65535 chars.