Testing and debugging the context initialization functions.

src/context.c

 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include "context.h"
-#include "file.h"
 
-sass_context *make_sass_context_from_file(char *path) {
+static sass_context *sass_alloc_context() {
   sass_context *ctx = malloc(sizeof(sass_context));
   if (!ctx) {
-    printf("ERROR: could not allocate sass context object.\n");
+    printf("ERROR: could not allocate Sass context object.\n");
     abort();
   }
+  return ctx;
+}
+
+static char *sass_read_file(char *path) {
+  FILE *f;
+  f = fopen(path, "rb");
+  if (!f) {
+    printf("ERROR: could not open Sass source file %s", path);
+    abort();
+  }
+  fseek(f, 0L, SEEK_END);
+  int len = ftell(f);
+  rewind(f);
+  char *buf = (char *)malloc(len * sizeof(char) + 1);
+  fread(buf, sizeof(char), len, f);
+  buf[len] = '\0';
+  fclose(f);
+  return buf;
+}
+
+sass_context *sass_make_context_from_file(char *path) {
+  sass_context *ctx = sass_alloc_context();
   ctx->path = path;
-  ctx->src = sass_read_file(path);
-  ctx->pos = src;
+  ctx->pos = ctx->src = sass_read_file(path);
+  ctx->line = 1;
+  return ctx;
+}
+
+sass_context *sass_make_context_from_string(char *src) {
+  size_t len = strlen(src);
+  sass_context *ctx = sass_alloc_context();
+  if (!(ctx->pos = ctx->src = (char *) malloc(len * sizeof(char) + 1) )) {
+    printf("ERROR: could not copy Sass source string.\n");
+    abort();
+  }
+  memcpy(ctx->src, src, len);
+  ctx->src[len] = '\0';
+  ctx->line = 1;
   return ctx;
 } 
 
@@ -19,3 +54,4 @@ void *free_sass_context(sass_context *ctx) {
   free(ctx->src);
   free(ctx);
 }
+

src/context.h

@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ typedef struct {
   char *path;  /* the full directory+filename of the source file */
   char *src;   /* the text of the entire source file */
   char *pos;   /* keeps track of the parser/scanner's current position */
+  size_t line; /* the number of the line currently being parsed/scanned */
   jmp_buf env; /* the top of the exception-handling stack */
   /* more to come */
 } sass_context;
 
-sass_context *make_sass_context_from_file(char *path);
\ No newline at end of file
+sass_context *sass_make_context_from_file(char *path);
+sass_context *sass_make_context_from_string(char *src);