Keeping track of original line numbers through macro expansion

Question

I'm working on a assembler for fun, written in C,flex,bison. I'd like to add macros, includes and repeating blocks and was thinking of doing this with a separate preprocessing stage parser.

My question is, how might I keep track of original source line numbers (and filenames)? This is for producing useful error messages, pretty printing, and generating debug information.

yylineno in the second parser after preprocessing is complete will presumably be offset after macro expansion and so on.

Answer 1

you can add

;#file filename.asm
;#line 5

to the preprocessed assembler so

foo:
PUSHREG(A,B,C)
;--10 lines of code
POPREG(A,B,C)
set PC,POP

turns into

foo:
;#file functionmacros.asm
;#line 10
set push,A
set push,B
set push,C
;#file yourfile.asm
;#line 5
;--10 lines of code
;#file functionmacros.asm
;#line 30
set C,pop
set B,POP
set C,POP
;#file yourfile.asm
;#line 16
set PC,POP