[Aldor-l] #line bugfix

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Bill Page wrote:

| On 12/11/07, Laurentiu Dragan wrote:
| > ...
| > Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
| > >
| > > BTW, there seem to be some guidelines of how code should be
| > > changed. (Editlevels) Since they are not public, nobody can follow
| > > them. In fact, it would be good if any available documentation
| > > about the compiler is put online.
| >
| > To my knowledge, all documentation is already available.
| >
| > All patches should be guarded by EDIT_* to be easily
| > enabled/disabled.
| >
| 
| I don't understand this. I think decorating the source code with
| conditionals would make the code more unreadable

agreed.

| and largely defeats
| at least one of the reasons for using a source code control system.

Why?  I see complement, but defeat?

| Could you give an example of the expected usage?

Well, you can compile the whole source with CPP defines on the command
line.

I'm not necessarily saying that is the way it should be done; but at
least, I see the rationale.  That may be quicker for binary search of
a regression than going through svn up, svn diff, etc.

-- Gaby