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8		The <b>BOOST_PP_LINE</b> macro places notes encoded as line directives in the preprocessing output.
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10	<h4>Usage</h4>
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12			#line <b>BOOST_PP_LINE</b>(<i>line</i>, <i>file</i>)
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14	<h4>Arguments</h4>
15		<dl>
16			<dt>line</dt>
17			<dd>
18				The new line number of the trailing line.&nbsp;
19				The predefined macro <i>__LINE__</i> is commonly used.
20			</dd>
21			<dt>file</dt>
22			<dd>
23				Typically the name of the current file.&nbsp;
24				However, any informative text will work.&nbsp;
25				This text is internally stringized, so quotation marks are unnecessary.
26			</dd>
27		</dl>
28	<h4>Remarks</h4>
29		<div>
30			If the macro <b>BOOST_PP_CONFIG_EXTENDED_LINE_INFO</b> is defined as <i>1</i> and a <i>file-iteration</i>
31			is in progress, this macro will automatically insert debugging information about the state of <i>file-iteration</i>.&nbsp;
32			This information will show the all of the current iteration values with the inner most iteration last.
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35			This information is useful when errors might be spanning multiple iterations of the same source text.&nbsp;
36			Finding any errors is sometimes less than straightforward.&nbsp;
37			Use of this macro can provide information to make this much easier.&nbsp;
38			For example, instead of getting several errors like this:
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40				"file.hpp", line 2: error: expected a ";"<br>
41				"file.hpp", line 4: error: improperly terminated macro invocation<br>
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43			You might get something like this instead....
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45				"file.hpp [1]", line 2: error: expected a ";"<br>
46				"file.hpp [5]", line 4: error: improperly terminated macro invocation<br>
47			</i></div>
48			It is immediately evident that this error is spanning multiple iterations of the same source text.&nbsp;
49			If it wasn't, the same errors would occur on each iteration.
50		</div>
51		<div>
52			It must be noted however, that some compilers don't like filenames that aren't actually files.&nbsp;
53			Those compilers typically issues warnings about the bad filename.&nbsp;
54			This makes it a good idea to only define <b>BOOST_PP_CONFIG_EXTENDED_LINE_INFO</b> to <i>1</i> <i>only</i> when debugging.
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56	<h4>See Also</h4>
57		<ul>
58			<li><a href="config_extended_line_info.html">BOOST_PP_CONFIG_EXTENDED_LINE_INFO</a></li>
59		</ul>
60	<h4>Requirements</h4>
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62			<b>Header:</b> &nbsp;<a href="../headers/debug/line.html">&lt;boost/preprocessor/debug/line.hpp&gt;</a>
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64	<h4>Sample Code</h4>
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66// sample.cpp
67#if !defined(<a href="is_iterating.html">BOOST_PP_IS_ITERATING</a>)
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69   #define <a href="config_extended_line_info.html">BOOST_PP_CONFIG_EXTENDED_LINE_INFO</a> 1
70
71   #include &lt;<a href="../headers/arithmetic/dec.html">boost/preprocessor/arithmetic/dec.hpp</a>&gt;
72   #include &lt;<a href="../headers/cat.html">boost/preprocessor/cat.hpp</a>&gt;
73   #include &lt;<a href="../headers/debug/line.html">boost/preprocessor/debug/line.hpp</a>&gt;
74   #include &lt;<a href="../headers/iteration/iterate.html">boost/preprocessor/iteration/iterate.hpp</a>&gt;
75
76   namespace sample {
77
78   #define <a href="iteration_params_x.html">BOOST_PP_ITERATION_PARAMS_1</a> (3, (1, 5, "sample.cpp"))
79   #include <a href="iterate.html">BOOST_PP_ITERATE</a>()
80
81   } // sample
82
83   int main(void) {
84      return 0;
85   }
86
87#else
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89   #line <a href="line.html">BOOST_PP_LINE</a>(1, sample.cpp)
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91   int <a href="cat.html">BOOST_PP_CAT</a>(x, <a href="iteration.html">BOOST_PP_ITERATION</a>())); // extra parenthesis
92
93   struct <a href="cat.html">BOOST_PP_CAT</a>(s, <a href="dec.html">BOOST_PP_DEC</a>(<a href="iteration.html">BOOST_PP_ITERATION</a>()) {
94      // missing a parenthesis
95      // ...
96   };
97
98#endif
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