[[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. + }