Re: C preprocessor style #line support

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 17:18, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> So I started thinking about how to coax Lua into doing this _and_ allow
>> a Lua debugger to still work.
>
>> It would be nice to feed this to Lua (or equivalent):
>>
>> #line 1 "fileA.lua"
>> local MY_DEFINE = 5
>> #line 2 "fileA.lua"
>> local YOUR_DEFINE = 10
>> #line 1 "fileB.lua"
>> print(MY_DEFINE)
>> #line 2 "fileB.lua"
>
>> Are there any fancy techniques to pull this off?  Noticing the layout of
>> the Proto structure, I don't think there are.  It seems to have only one
>> filename per Proto.
>
> That's the real problem. Line numbers are not hard. See
>        http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-06/msg00111.html
>
>

You could actually run Lua files through the C preprocessor for true
#define support.

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