Re: About column numbers

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Lines are a different beast — you have to be compatible with the
>> convention compilers use to report errors, and pretty much all of them
>> count lines from 1.
>
> They also count columns from 1.

At least GCC doesn’t. It counts bytes. Perhaps that’s a bug.

$ cat test1.c
/*я*/foo

$ gcc test1.c
test1.c:1:7: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’
at end of input
 /*я*/foo
       ^