[commit: ghc] ghc-8.0: user-guide: Refer to MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL from intro (dcf4b4c)
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On branch : ghc-8.0
Link : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/dcf4b4c4c16a5fcab250deb532c9b40e342df04f/ghc
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commit dcf4b4c4c16a5fcab250deb532c9b40e342df04f
Author: Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>
Date: Thu Jan 21 11:30:24 2016 +0100
user-guide: Refer to MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL from intro
And fix markup.
(cherry picked from commit 928484d2b021fc968d5f2dfe490dc0ad201dc7df)
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dcf4b4c4c16a5fcab250deb532c9b40e342df04f
docs/users_guide/intro.rst | 3 +++
docs/users_guide/phases.rst | 8 +++++++-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/intro.rst b/docs/users_guide/intro.rst
index 281c04a..677f462 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/intro.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/intro.rst
@@ -175,3 +175,6 @@ numbering GHC versions:
The version number of your copy of GHC can be found by invoking ``ghc``
with the ``--version`` flag (see :ref:`options-help`).
+The compiler version can be tested within compiled code with the
+``MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL`` CPP macro (defined only when
+:ghc-flag:`-XCPP` is used). See :ref:`standard-cpp-macros` for details.
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/phases.rst b/docs/users_guide/phases.rst
index bc4e90f..e9637fa 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/phases.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/phases.rst
@@ -182,6 +182,11 @@ Options affecting the C pre-processor
The GHC driver pre-defines several macros when processing Haskell source
code (``.hs`` or ``.lhs`` files).
+.. _standard-cpp-macros:
+
+Standard CPP macros
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
The symbols defined by GHC are listed below. To check which symbols are
defined by your local GHC installation, the following trick is useful:
@@ -258,7 +263,7 @@ defined by your local GHC installation, the following trick is useful:
is required, the presence of the ``MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL``
macro needs to be ensured before it is called, e.g.:
- .. code-block: c
+ .. code-block:: c
#ifdef MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL
#if MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL(7,10,2,0)
@@ -451,6 +456,7 @@ Options affecting code generation
no-op on that platform.
.. ghc-flag:: -dynamic
+ :noindex:
When generating code, assume that entities imported from a different
package will reside in a different shared library or binary.
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