[RFC/RFA?] Should break FILE:LINENO skip prologue?

[Michael Snyder]

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 16:31 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:25:24 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >
> > Unless I'm missing something, I'd like to add a node with an
> > exhaustive definition of an address (or LINESPEC), and then add
> > cross-references to that place whenever we talk about addresses.  Does
> > the below list all the possible use cases?
> > 
> >    . LINENO
> >    . FILENAME:LINENO
> >    . FUNCTION
> >    . FILENAME:FUNCTION
> >    . +OFFSET
> >    . -OFFSET
> >    . *FUNCTION
> >    . *FILENAME:FUNCTION
> >    . *EXPRESSION
> 
> *FUNCTION and *FILENAME:FUNCTION are just special cases of *EXPRESSION

But important extensions, as they are not part of the target language.