Re: Locations suggest

[John W. Millaway]

> The idea was otherwise just that if the file C/C++ file structure already
> keeps track of the position, one can use that, and compute the column
> number from that. This might be faster than trying to keep track of the
> column number.

Probably the same speed. This:

    col = ftell(yyin) - last_newline;

compared to this:

    col = last_column + last_yyleng;

The benefit of the second one is that it works for string buffers without
conditional code.



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