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proc_macro: Add API for loading external files into the SourceMap #92565

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With this feature, proc macros (like askama::Template) could parse external files and then emit diagnostics with appropriate spans.

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Other APIs are possible, but I was thinking of something like this:

impl SourceFile {
    pub fn span(&self) -> Span { ... }
    pub fn contents(&self) -> &str { ... }
    pub fn load(path: &Path) -> Self { ... }
}

I'm not super familiar with the proc_macro API, so feel free to suggest better API designs.

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See this discussion on Zulip and this discussion on GitHub for why I think this feature would be useful.

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    A-proc-macrosArea: Procedural macrosC-feature-requestCategory: A feature request, i.e: not implemented / a PR.T-compilerRelevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue.T-libs-api[DEPRECATED; DO NOT USE]

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