<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Harendra Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harendra.kumar@gmail.com" target="_blank">harendra.kumar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">But "-optP" seems to only append to the flags that GHC already passes and gcc has no "-no-traditional" option to undo the effect of the "-traditional" that GHC has already passed. I think "-optP" should override the flags passed by ghc rather than appending to them. Is there a reason not to do that?<div><br></div><div><div>Is there any other better way to achieve this? What is the standard way of doing this if any?</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Removing -traditional will break much Haskell source. Go look at the history of clang with ghc (clang doesn't do -traditional) to see what happens. (tl;dr: without -traditional, cpp knows too much about what constitutes valid C, and mangles and/or throws errors on valid Haskell that doesn't lex the way C does.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You might want to look at cpphs as an alternative preprocessor. There are some ancient K&R-era hacks that could be used if absolutely necessary, but cpphs should be a much simpler and cleaner solution.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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