+
+/* Persistant data used by location_caret to avoid reopening and rereading the
+ same file all over for each error. */
+struct caret_info
+{
+ FILE *source;
+ size_t line;
+ size_t offset;
+};
+
+static struct caret_info caret_info = { NULL, 1, 0 };
+
+void
+cleanup_caret ()
+{
+ if (caret_info.source)
+ fclose (caret_info.source);
+ caret_info.source = NULL;
+ caret_info.line = 1;
+ caret_info.offset = 0;
+}
+
+void
+location_caret (location loc, FILE *out)
+{
+ /* FIXME: find a way to support multifile locations, and only open once each
+ file. That would make the procedure future-proof. */
+ if (! (caret_info.source
+ || (caret_info.source = fopen (loc.start.file, "r")))
+ || loc.start.column == -1 || loc.start.line == -1)
+ return;
+
+ /* If the line we want to quote is seekable (the same line as the previous
+ location), just seek it. If it was a previous line, we lost track of it,
+ so return to the start of file. */
+ if (caret_info.line <= loc.start.line)
+ fseek (caret_info.source, caret_info.offset, SEEK_SET);
+ else
+ {
+ caret_info.line = 1;
+ caret_info.offset = 0;
+ fseek (caret_info.source, caret_info.offset, SEEK_SET);
+ }
+
+ /* Advance to the line's position, keeping track of the offset. */
+ while (caret_info.line < loc.start.line)
+ caret_info.line += getc (caret_info.source) == '\n';
+ caret_info.offset = ftell (caret_info.source);
+
+ /* Read the actual line. Don't update the offset, so that we keep a pointer
+ to the start of the line. */
+ {
+ int c = getc (caret_info.source);
+ if (c != EOF)
+ {
+ /* Quote the file, indent by a single column. */
+ putc (' ', out);
+ do
+ putc (c, out);
+ while ((c = getc (caret_info.source)) != EOF && c != '\n');
+ putc ('\n', out);
+
+ {
+ /* The caret of a multiline location ends with the first line. */
+ size_t len = loc.start.line != loc.end.line
+ ? ftell (caret_info.source) - caret_info.offset
+ : loc.end.column;
+ int i;
+
+ /* Print the carets (at least one), with the same indent as above.*/
+ fprintf (out, " %*s", loc.start.column - 1, "");
+ for (i = loc.start.column; i == loc.start.column || i < len; ++i)
+ putc ('^', out);
+ }
+ putc ('\n', out);
+ }
+ }
+}
+