Re: Bug Report (Feature request?) etags (GNU Emacs 21.1)

[Francesco Potorti`]

   > However, this will often NOT be the case when #line directives are
   > found in files generated by other programs (there may be a 1:100 or a
   > 100:1 correspondance) -- but you don't know.  So etags will have to 
   > put the #line directive's line number directly into TAGS.
   
   I do not think this is correct.  The program generating the #line
   directives can, I think, be assumed to output a new #line directive
   whenever there is no 1:1 correspondence.

I do believe that Sven is right.  That's the precise purpose of the
#line directive.