/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2004, 2009 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Doug Schaefer (IBM) - Initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast;
/**
* A NodeLocation represents the source location of a given node. Most often
* this is a file it may be other fancy things like macro expansions.
*
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*/
public interface IASTNodeLocation {
/**
* This is the offset within either the file or a macro-expansion.
*/
public int getNodeOffset();
/**
* This is the length of the node within the file or macro-expansion.
*/
public int getNodeLength();
/**
* Return a file location that best maps into this location.
*/
public IASTFileLocation asFileLocation();
}