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libutil: Document hacks and problems around Pos class

This should provide context for follow-up commits in
the patch series.

(cherry picked from commit bf12aedf2e)
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Sergei Zimmerman 2025-03-13 12:55:42 +00:00 committed by Mergify
parent 0033cf4270
commit 3ab83f507c
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@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ struct LinesOfCode {
std::optional<std::string> nextLineOfCode; std::optional<std::string> nextLineOfCode;
}; };
/* NOTE: position.hh recursively depends on source-path.hh -> source-accessor.hh
-> hash.hh -> config.hh -> experimental-features.hh -> error.hh -> Pos.
There are other such cycles.
Thus, Pos has to be an incomplete type in this header. But since ErrorInfo/Trace
have to refer to Pos, they have to use pointer indirection via std::shared_ptr
to break the recursive header dependency.
FIXME: Untangle this mess. Should there be AbstractPos as there used to be before
4feb7d9f71? */
struct Pos; struct Pos;
void printCodeLines(std::ostream & out, void printCodeLines(std::ostream & out,

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@ -76,6 +76,17 @@ public:
return PosIdx(1 + origin.offset + offset); return PosIdx(1 + origin.offset + offset);
} }
/**
* Convert a byte-offset PosIdx into a Pos with line/column information.
*
* @param p Byte offset into the virtual concatenation of all parsed contents
* @return Position
*
* @warning Very expensive to call, as this has to read the entire source
* into memory each time. Call this only if absolutely necessary. Prefer
* to keep PosIdx around instead of needlessly converting it into Pos by
* using this lookup method.
*/
Pos operator[](PosIdx p) const; Pos operator[](PosIdx p) const;
Pos::Origin originOf(PosIdx p) const Pos::Origin originOf(PosIdx p) const

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@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ struct Pos
explicit operator bool() const { return line > 0; } explicit operator bool() const { return line > 0; }
/* TODO: Why std::shared_ptr<Pos> and not std::shared_ptr<const Pos>? */
operator std::shared_ptr<Pos>() const; operator std::shared_ptr<Pos>() const;
/** /**