2010/8/23 Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org>: >> I don't see why introducing such new tokens is bad? It can only make >> the tokenizer and parser more useful in the long term. > > I never said it is bad; I just don't see why you need it.
I guess one wants the line numbers between the orginal source to be the same, for example to have the same line info in case of a backtrace when you compare before and after the changes. > > You could perfectly do it differently, e.g. insert a newline after certain > tokens: > then > begin > ; > end > else > var > type > const > So, programs compiled with profile info generate different backtraces with line info as programs without them. That is not nice. > That would perfectly be enough for your purposes, which is, to debug your > profiler. > And once that is done, it is no longer needed at all. > Why is it not longer needed? > Don't worry, I'll apply the patch, but you have not convinced me it is a > needed patch, even for your purposes. I'm surprised you didn't think of the > above ways to do what you need. I think with the new tokens a profiler can do a better job. Vincent _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
