[Mono-dev] gmcs and The Future

[Avery Pennarun]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:
>> And my own idea: add support for "# line" style preprocessor tags, as
>> produced by cpp.  I have a few programs that need to run through cpp
>> before compiling, and the lack of "# line" support means that (unless
>> I'm almost impossibly careful and do some strange tricks) the line
>> numbers reported in error/warning messages will be screwed up by the
>> preprocessor.
>
> mcs does support #line, that is what we use to generate symbols for
> ASP.NET pages for example.

I admit I haven't tried it in a while - my workarounds date back to
mono 1.2.6 or so.  Was it added recently?

Avery