On 20/06/18 13:45, Ryan Joseph wrote:
On Jun 20, 2018, at 8:09 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote:> > Nothing stops people from preprocessing their code if they need really> advanced preprocessing: The toolchain can handle it already.> > But there is no need to integrate it in the compiler and thus needlessly> complicating it even more. The consequences of such a step are far-reaching.> > And till now, no-one has presented the really pressing use cases that would warrant such a step.
How can you integrate a preprocessor without misaligning error messages and debugging information?
I forget the detail but some language implementations have pragmata which tell subsequent processing steps that at this point the source should be considered to have come from such-and-such a line number in such-and-such a file.
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