Re: Mostly a Perl task for the interested

Nicholas Clark <nick@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:47:55PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>> classes/*.c is created by the bytecode compiler classes/pmc2c2.pl. Most
>> of the actual code is in lib/Parrot/Pmc2c.pm.
>>
>> The created C code could need some improvements:

> Can I add a fourth - one I said to Dan I intended to do, but so far haven't
> managed:

> * The created C code could benefit from #line directives to track where
>   C code came from the input .pmc file, so that compiler errors are reported
>   for the original .pmc file. Perl 5's xsubpp does this well, using #line
>   directives to switch between foo.c and foo.xs, depending on whether that
>   section of code was human written, or autogenerated. It makes things much
>   easier while developing.

Yep, thanks. The hooks are there, as well as a command-line option to
turn line numbers off, which is sometimes useful.

Anyway most line number stuff is already inside, but it's broken and
needs fixing.

> Of course, I may find time to do this before anyone else does, but anyone
> is welcome to beat me to it.

:)

> Nicholas Clark

leo