Re: preprocessor/5153: #include path not affected by #line in cpplib

[John Marshall <jmarshall@acm.org>]

The following reply was made to PR preprocessor/5153; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Marshall <jmarshall@acm.org>
To: neil@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
   gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: preprocessor/5153: #include path not affected by #line in cpplib
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:08:24 +0100

 On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:30:15PM -0000, neil@gcc.gnu.org wrote:
 >     we decided to retain the current behaviour.  The above link starts
 >     a thread that also references other mails where the old behaviour
 >     was considered to be a bug.
 
 I still agree with Andreas [1] that the old behaviour is more
 self-consistent
 
 >     Since the old behaviour [...] can
 >     often, if not always, be obtained with an extra -I switch
 
 (like I mentioned in the original bug report :-)), but all I really
 wanted to do was get the change in behaviour mentioned in GNATS and/or
 the documentation, so the next person who runs into this has more to go
 on.  Thanks for looking into this.
 
     John
 
 [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/1999-06n/msg00098.html