Re: AT_LINE

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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 9/13/2009 9:48 AM:
> all debug output will list line N as the originator for the checks.
> 
> Is it possible to realize in M4 in Autotest to list another or yet
> another line as line numbers?

Unfortunately, current m4 treats all text created by a macro expansion as
coming from line N where the macro name occurred; there is no way to ask
for a count of lines relative to the expansion.  Therefore, the only way I
know of to specify line numbers is to provide them as arguments to the
macro call.  That is, instead of:

foo([    # line n
bar      # reports line n
bar      # reports line n
])

you would use something like:

foo([            # line n
bar(]__line__[)  # bar called with line n+1
bar(]__line__[)  # bar called with line n+2
])

But that gets hairy fast, and AT_CHECK doesn't have an interface that
currently allows the specification of an alternate line number.

Maybe it would be nice to patch m4 to track __line__ usage within an
expanded macro relative to the number of newlines encountered during the
expansion, but that would be quite a bit of upstream effort, and won't
appear in a stable released version of m4 for quite some time.

This also reminds me that I have plans to implement __line__(value) for m4
1.6, which allows one to change the current reported line on the fly; but
I haven't gotten to that yet.

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Eric Blake             [email protected]
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