+/* Returns a newly allocated msg_location for the syntax that represents tokens
+ with 0-based offsets N0...N1, inclusive, from the current token. The caller
+ must eventually free the location (with msg_location_destroy()). */
+struct msg_location *
+lex_get_location (const struct lexer *lexer, int n0, int n1)
+{
+ struct msg_location *loc = lex_get_lines (lexer, n0, n1);
+ loc->first_column = lex_get_first_column (lexer, n0);
+ loc->last_column = lex_get_last_column (lexer, n1);
+ return loc;
+}
+
+/* Returns a newly allocated msg_location for the syntax that represents tokens
+ with 0-based offsets N0...N1, inclusive, from the current token. The
+ location only covers the tokens' lines, not the columns. The caller must
+ eventually free the location (with msg_location_destroy()). */
+struct msg_location *
+lex_get_lines (const struct lexer *lexer, int n0, int n1)
+{
+ struct msg_location *loc = xmalloc (sizeof *loc);
+ *loc = (struct msg_location) {
+ .file_name = xstrdup_if_nonnull (lex_get_file_name (lexer)),
+ .first_line = lex_get_first_line_number (lexer, n0),
+ .last_line = lex_get_last_line_number (lexer, n1),
+ };
+ return loc;
+}
+