CPP usage in GHC.

[Karel Gardas]

On 08/11/14 11:18 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> why should this flag be passed to cpp when invoked on HS files? It'd be
> easy to expose another field in the settings file for this other
> invokecation.. though i should look more closely at the use site before
> opinining :)

Hmm, isn't doCpp function what's invoked when cpp is invoked for HS 
files? If so, then -x assembler-with-cpp is already used for HS files 
anyway.

Karel

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> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz
> <mailto:karel.gardas at centrum.cz>> wrote:
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>     On 08/11/14 08:48 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
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>         What i'm hearing you say is we actually need TWO sets of CPP
>         flags, one
>         for normal haskell, and another for the CPP used on the assembler?
>         wheres this hardcoding?
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>     DriverPipeline.hs -- grep for "assembler-with-cpp" and you will find it.
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>     IMHO best would be to move this "-x assembler-with-cpp" into the
>     hs-cpp-flags managed by configure. This way it may be even possible
>     to use system supplied plain cpp instead of cpp builtinto GNU C.
>
>     Karel
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