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From: David Mentre <David.Mentre@inria.fr>
To: "Vesa Karvonen" <vesa.karvonen@housemarque.fi>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] line number for assert
Date: 11 Sep 2001 11:51:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qtln142ys09.fsf@pochi.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001301c13aa5$9ffff090$422aa8c0@housemarque.fi>

"Vesa Karvonen" <vesa.karvonen@housemarque.fi> writes:

> The assert primitive of Ocaml 3.02 (windows version) seems to print the source
> file location as an offset from the beginning of the file rather than as a
> line number and column.
> 
> Is there a particular reason for this?

Yes. Internally, the compiler knows only about character position. The
line number is computed (in fact the source file is reparsed) only when
an error message is printed:
  http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200011/msg00032.html

> The reason why I'm asking this is that it makes it much more difficult to find
> the right assertion on most editors.

Except with emacs. :)

> Is there a simple way to overcome this limitation?

As far as I know, no. However you should look at mailing list
archive. This topic has been discussed numerous times.

Best regards,
d.
-- 
 David.Mentre@inria.fr
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-11  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-11  9:39 Vesa Karvonen
2001-09-11  9:51 ` David Mentre [this message]
2001-09-11 10:06   ` Markus Mottl
2001-09-13  0:14     ` SooHyoung Oh
2001-09-13  8:46       ` Markus Mottl
2001-09-11 10:53   ` Sven
2001-09-11 13:49     ` Christian Lindig
2001-09-11 14:41   ` Vesa Karvonen

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