In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > Till now, the burden of preprocessing is considered simply too big for the > gain. > > One consequence, for example, is that the ppu files are thrown out of the > window. The compiler would have to compile every used unit every time again, > since it has no idea what the user of the preprocessor can/will/wants to do. > Just as the C compiler is forced to do, by the way. > > Second consequence is the generation of debug info: you need to work back to > the original source location. This places a restriction on the preprocessor, > since it somehow needs to communicate back the original source locations to > the > compiler. etc. > > Same is true for error locations, and so on.
And afaik you need to introduce (more?) line based parsing in the preprocessor rather than a token stream. Just try to put #line or #define in the middle of a statement in C. This is also alien to pascal. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
