From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-10-26T23:04:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Errors in line numbers reported?

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, ts wrote:

>>>>>> "M" == Markus  <markus@reality.com> writes:
>
> M>      I have a patch (attached).  It removes the 8k line limit on error
> M> tracking but increases the size of the RNODE to 36 bytes (if I calculate
> M> correctly) from the easier to align 32 bytes.
>
> The game is to not change the size of R struct

how about storing the line in some word aligned bytes __behind__ nd_file?

   nd_file = "a.rb\0xxxx";

the nd_line(n) would be something like

   (unsigned long)*((unsinged long *)(nd_file + ((strlen(nd_file) + 4) % 4) - 1));

you get the idea...

-a
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