On Thu, 12 May 2011, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 12 May 2011, at 10:21, Jonas Maebe wrote:
b) it inlines the constents of {$include xxx} statements (so the
compiler-inserted debug information would no longer be correct
This is actually a general problem with preprocessed source files: the line
information inserted by the compiler will almost certainly no longer
correspond to the original source, but to the preprocessed source instead
(unless support is added for some kind of line directives, but that's a whole
other thing that just supporting calling an external program to preprocess
sources).
Good reasons to avoid preprocessor support in the compiler. Anyone needing it
can perfectly do this manually with makefiles and e.g. m4. Lazarus has support
for it as well, so this should not stop anyone.
I prefer a smaller "mean and lean" compiler to a "bloatware and slow" compiler.
One day, we'll end up adding email support to the compiler.
Michael.
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