Re: [re2c-general] supporting Gnu-format error messages

[Ulya T. <skv...@gm...>]

> I've run into a problem.
> 
> In most places where options are already passed, they are passed as
> 'const opt_t *opts'. However, that type does not contain 'source_file';
> 'source_file' is only in the higher level Opt type.
> 
> So either I need to add an Opt arg to all the places that already get
> opt_t (that seems awkward), or move source_file into conopt_t.
> 
> Any advice?

The right way would be to move 'source_file' into 'mutopt_t': the name
of the source file might be changed by one of the '#line' directives
(which are handled by re2c).

> I'm tempted to give up; I won't be editing that many .re files, so the
> error message format is not too annoying. 

Sure, you can file an issue on github -- then I'll fix it myself.