On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:37:32PM -0700, Jonathan Worthington via RT wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > Rakudo doesn't use the line numbering feature of imcc because > > the line numbering feature of imcc doesn't work. > > > > See RT#43269 - "setline is tied to PIR source". > > I wouldn't say it doesn' work per se, it just doesn't do what you want > it to do. :-)
Fair enough. However, I'm in favor of Chip's remark in #40806 that says we should use setfile/setline (opcodes) for tracking HLL lines and the #line <num> "<file>" directive for tracking lines of PIR source. > There's something spec'd in the bytecode PDD to do what we > need for Rakudo, it's just not implemented yet. I will try and get to it > soon. That would be great. As you can tell, this is a source of great confusion for people who are writing in and developing Rakudo. Pm
