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<title>The C Preprocessor: Line Control</title>
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Next: <a href="Pragmas.html#Pragmas" accesskey="n" rel="next">Pragmas</a>, Previous: <a href="Diagnostics.html#Diagnostics" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Diagnostics</a>, Up: <a href="index.html#Top" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index-of-Directives.html#Index-of-Directives" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="Line-Control-1"></a>
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<h2 class="chapter">6 Line Control</h2>
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<a name="index-line-control"></a>
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<p>The C preprocessor informs the C compiler of the location in your source
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code where each token came from. Presently, this is just the file name
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and line number. All the tokens resulting from macro expansion are
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reported as having appeared on the line of the source file where the
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outermost macro was used. We intend to be more accurate in the future.
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</p>
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<p>If you write a program which generates source code, such as the
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<code>bison</code> parser generator, you may want to adjust the preprocessor’s
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notion of the current file name and line number by hand. Parts of the
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output from <code>bison</code> are generated from scratch, other parts come
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from a standard parser file. The rest are copied verbatim from
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<code>bison</code>’s input. You would like compiler error messages and
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symbolic debuggers to be able to refer to <code>bison</code>’s input file.
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<a name="index-_0023line"></a>
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<p><code>bison</code> or any such program can arrange this by writing
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‘<samp>#line</samp>’ directives into the output file. ‘<samp>#line</samp>’ is a
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directive that specifies the original line number and source file name
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for subsequent input in the current preprocessor input file.
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‘<samp>#line</samp>’ has three variants:
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<dl compact="compact">
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<dt><code>#line <var>linenum</var></code></dt>
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<dd><p><var>linenum</var> is a non-negative decimal integer constant. It specifies
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the line number which should be reported for the following line of
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input. Subsequent lines are counted from <var>linenum</var>.
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</p>
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</dd>
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<dt><code>#line <var>linenum</var> <var>filename</var></code></dt>
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<dd><p><var>linenum</var> is the same as for the first form, and has the same
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effect. In addition, <var>filename</var> is a string constant. The
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following line and all subsequent lines are reported to come from the
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file it specifies, until something else happens to change that.
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<var>filename</var> is interpreted according to the normal rules for a string
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constant: backslash escapes are interpreted. This is different from
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‘<samp>#include</samp>’.
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</p>
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<p>Previous versions of CPP did not interpret escapes in ‘<samp>#line</samp>’;
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we have changed it because the standard requires they be interpreted,
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and most other compilers do.
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</p>
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</dd>
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<dt><code>#line <var>anything else</var></code></dt>
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<dd><p><var>anything else</var> is checked for macro calls, which are expanded.
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The result should match one of the above two forms.
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</p></dd>
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</dl>
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<p>‘<samp>#line</samp>’ directives alter the results of the <code>__FILE__</code> and
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<code>__LINE__</code> predefined macros from that point on. See <a href="Standard-Predefined-Macros.html#Standard-Predefined-Macros">Standard Predefined Macros</a>. They do not have any effect on ‘<samp>#include</samp>’’s
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idea of the directory containing the current file. This is a change
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from GCC 2.95. Previously, a file reading
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</p>
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<div class="smallexample">
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<pre class="smallexample">#include "gram.h"
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</pre></div>
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<p>would search for <samp>gram.h</samp> in <samp>../src</samp>, then the <samp>-I</samp>
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chain; the directory containing the physical source file would not be
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searched. In GCC 3.0 and later, the ‘<samp>#include</samp>’ is not affected by
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the presence of a ‘<samp>#line</samp>’ referring to a different directory.
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</p>
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<p>We made this change because the old behavior caused problems when
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generated source files were transported between machines. For instance,
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it is common practice to ship generated parsers with a source release,
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so that people building the distribution do not need to have yacc or
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Bison installed. These files frequently have ‘<samp>#line</samp>’ directives
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referring to the directory tree of the system where the distribution was
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created. If GCC tries to search for headers in those directories, the
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build is likely to fail.
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</p>
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<p>The new behavior can cause failures too, if the generated file is not
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in the same directory as its source and it attempts to include a header
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which would be visible searching from the directory containing the
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source file. However, this problem is easily solved with an additional
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<samp>-I</samp> switch on the command line. The failures caused by the old
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semantics could sometimes be corrected only by editing the generated
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files, which is difficult and error-prone.
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Next: <a href="Pragmas.html#Pragmas" accesskey="n" rel="next">Pragmas</a>, Previous: <a href="Diagnostics.html#Diagnostics" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Diagnostics</a>, Up: <a href="index.html#Top" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index-of-Directives.html#Index-of-Directives" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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