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Re: Small fix of column number in parser


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: Small fix of column number in parser
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:56:44 -0400

On 28-Apr-2011, Daniel Kraft wrote:

| As I understand it, this should be right -- it's more or less the other 
| way round, if we skip a white-space character, we increment the counter. 
|   If we don't have white-space, we put it back on the stream, return and 
| do nothing at all to the counter.  Decrementing it was precisely the 
| reason for reporting "column -1" above.

OK, I understand now.  I think your patch is fine.

| There was no bug report for this problem -- but of course I can always 
| create one to attach a patch which fixes a bug.  In that case, should I 
| also post to the mailing list that a new patch is available, or can this 
| be seen right from the bug-list?

There's usually no need to post a message to the list if you report a
bug in the tracker.  People who care to follow the bug reports are
already subscribed to the notification list for the tracker.

jwe


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