>>>>> "Dave" == David Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> writes:
Dave> However within libcpp and gcc, in linemap's expanded_location and in Dave> diagnostic messages, the "column" numbers are actually 1-based counts of Dave> *characters*, so the "column" numbers emitted in diagnostics for the Dave> start of the first token in each line are actually: FWIW this is actually in violation of the GNU coding standards. There's a bug open for it. However, I was always afraid to change this in cpp, since presumably it would break existing programs that read gcc's output. It's a bad situation because the standard can't be changed, either, as other programs (e.g., bison and I think Emacs) do follow it faithfully. Dave> (i) a consistent value for tabs in terms of spaces, or There's already -ftabstop for this, but it isn't per-file. Tom
