[[project @ 2002-04-30 15:34:24 by simonmar]
simonmar**20020430153424
Enclose the text about the CPP/string gap problem in a section so we
can refer to it easily.
] {
hunk ./ghc/docs/users_guide/phases.sgml 268
- A small word of warning: is not
- friendly to “string gaps”.-cpp
- vs string gapsstring
- gaps vs -cpp. In other words, strings
- such as the following:
+
+ CPP and string gaps
+
+ A small word of warning: is not
+ friendly to “string gaps”.-cpp
+ vs string gapsstring
+ gaps vs -cpp. In other words, strings
+ such as the following:
hunk ./ghc/docs/users_guide/phases.sgml 282
+
+ don't work with ;
+ /usr/bin/cpp elides the backslash-newline
+ pairs.
hunk ./ghc/docs/users_guide/phases.sgml 287
- don't work with ;
- /usr/bin/cpp elides the backslash-newline
- pairs.
-
- However, it appears that if you add a space at the end of
- the line, then cpp (at least GNU
- cpp and possibly other
- cpps) leaves the backslash-space pairs alone
- and the string gap works as expected.
+ However, it appears that if you add a space at the end
+ of the line, then cpp (at least GNU
+ cpp and possibly other
+ cpps) leaves the backslash-space pairs
+ alone and the string gap works as expected.
+
}