#line directive in c


It tells the compiler that next line of source code is at the line number which has been specified by constant in #line directive i.e it transfer the program control to the line number which has been specified by #line directive.
Example:

#include<stdio.h>
#line 15
int main(){
    int a=10;
    a++;
    a++;
    #line 5
    printf("%d",a);
}
If we will see its intermediate file then before the actual compilation the source code is expanded as :



In the very long c program for debugging purpose if we want to check the program after the line 300 by F7 key then we will write #line 20







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  • 2 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    how to see the intermediate file

    Priyanka kumari said...

    In command prompt write: CPP fileName.c