Re: [Doxygen-develop] [PATCH] warn about maintaining line numbers with INPUT_FILTER

[Dimitri v. H. <do...@gm...>]

Hi Anthony,

On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:38 , Anthony Foiani <ant...@gm...> wrote:

> Greetings.
> 
> I recently spent far longer than I should have, trying to track down
> why my code anchors were offset.
> 
> It turns out that I had been using:
> 
>   INPUT_FILTER = "grep -v 'something to ignore'"
> 
> But this removed the lines entirely; that meant that the code scanner
> "saw" different line numbers than the cpp-to-html generator.  Once I
> realized what was happening, I got the same result by using:
> 
>   INPUT_FILTER = "sed -e 's/.*something to ignore.*//'"
> 
> But I might have saved myself a few hours if I had seen a warning about it.  :)
> 
> Since I was already doing the other patch, here's one to add a bit of
> warning text about this possibility.

Thanks, I'll include it.

Regards,
  Dimitri