Building GHC head with clang on Mavericks

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 15:33:08 UTC 2013


On 21/11/2013 13:05, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote:
> Hi SimonM,
>
>> But I'm not sure about this fix.  I'm happy to merge in fixes for Mac
>> in general, but in this case we seem to lose the line pragmas, which
>> are actually useful (error messages will point to the original source,
>> instead of some preprocessed file).
>
> Yes. If we can find another solution which keeps line markers, it is
> much better, anyway.
>
> But this patch effects templates only. When a template is included
> into an HS file (genearted from a '.x' file), the position is
> shifted. So, I'm not sure that line markers are important as you
> think.

Isn't this why the line pragmas are important?  If GHC reports an error 
in the template code, we want the error message to point to the template 
source (GenericTemplate.hs), not the generated source file.  This works 
right now, it'd be a shame to lose it.

Cheers,
Simon


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