[C2hs] more problems with c2hs

[Ruben Zilibowitz]

This seems to work on my system:

gcc -E -x c myheader.h

An odd thing I noticed about cpp is that it appears to be a wrapper  
for gcc on Darwin:

cpp --version
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc.  
build 5367)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There  
is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  
PURPOSE.

Ruben

On 13/04/2007, at 12:01 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 11:09 +1000, Ruben Zilibowitz wrote:
>> All these seemed to work except for 2. In the c2hs output it says:
>> cpp -x c ...
>> not:
>> cpp -x -c ...
>> I think that might be a key issue.
>
> Doh! That was my mistake. :-) It really should be "-x c" not "-x -c".
> The latter means something totally different :-)
>
> Sorry, could you try again with my mistake corrected.
>
> Here's an excerpt from the cpp man page on my system:
>
>         -x c
>         -x c++
>         -x objective-c
>         -x assembler-with-cpp
>                 Specify the source language: C, C++, Objective-C, or
>                 assembly. This has nothing to do with standards
>                 conformance or extensions; it merely selects which  
> base
>                 syntax to expect.  If you give none of these options,
>                 cpp will deduce the language from the extension of the
>                 source file: .c, .cc, .m, or .S.  Some other common
>                 extensions for C++ and assembly are also  
> recognized.  If
>                 cpp does not recognize the extension, it will treat  
> the
>                 file as C; this is the most generic mode.
>
> I thought this -x c feature was portable, where as relying on cpp to
> default to C mode for a .h file seems much less so. Perhaps we should
> just spit out a .c file instead of a .h file. It wouldn't make much
> difference to c2hs as far as I can see.
>
> Duncan
>