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

[Seth Grover]

Actually I already found it, and it will be trivial to do.

Would this be useful to anyone else? Should I submit a patch?
Basically I'm adding a "LINENUM" macro (vs. the existing "LINE" macro)
which inserts the line number as an numeric rather than a string
constant.

-SG


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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Seth Grover <sethdgrover at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quoting http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu38.html
>
> --------------------
> the {$INCLUDE} directive inserts a string constant in the source code.
>
> ...
> LINE
>    Linenumer on which the directive is found.
> --------------------
>
> 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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