Re: Mostly a Perl task for the interested

On Oct 30, 2004, at 12:58 AM, Leopold Toetsch wrote:

> Nicholas Clark <nick@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:47:55PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> > >
> > * 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.

FYI I'm fiddling with classes/pmc2c2.pl, in connection with your 
ccache-ish "feature request", but I'm not (much) touching Pmc2c.pm, so 
I shouldn't conflict with anyone working there.

JEff