your change "x86: Also pass -P to $(CPP) when processing i386-opc.tbl"

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 5:33 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
> H.J.,
>
> the description there talks about dealing with \ uses for line
> continuation. -P, however, is about the suppression of line markers.
> In recent work I've been wondering why i386-gen gives far off line
> numbers in error diagnostics, making it sometimes quite difficult to
> spot what is actually wrong. Furthermore i386-gen.c specifically has
> code to consume the line markers.
>
> Can you please explain to me what your change really was about? And
> can you please propose an alternative way of having i386-gen give
> useful diagnostics (unless you agree with reverting that change of
> yours)?
>

Here it is:

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2022-July/122060.html


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H.J.