On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:55:20PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:18:11PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> >
> > I've just looked at a few other common tools to see what they do, but
> > the answer turns out to be "not give column numbers".
>
> Found a couple that do; cpp and yacc both look like they start at 1:
Also, someone's just pointed me at this link:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Errors.html
Line numbers should start from 1 at the beginning of the file, and
column numbers should start from 1 at the beginning of the line.
(Both of these conventions are chosen for compatibility.) Calculate
column numbers assuming that space and all ASCII printing characters
have equal width, and assuming tab stops every 8 columns.
Thanks
Ian
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