Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: __LINE__ and __FILE__ -- a beginner's question
Message-ID: <1989Oct13.165216.29312@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6257@arcturus>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 89 16:52:16 GMT

In article <6257@arcturus> evil@arcturus.UUCP (Wade Guthrie) writes:
>For what purpose are the __LINE__ and __FILE__ macros used?  Are these
>only useful for the writers of code that, in turn, produces compileable
>code, or is there some use for the applications programmer?

Their only major use is for generation of error messages that identify
the exact location of the problem.
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