[Haskell-cafe] cpphs and #pragma
Malcolm Wallace
Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Wed Dec 13 12:46:35 EST 2006
"Dimitry Golubovsky" <golubovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this a bug or a feature that cpphs does not pass the #pragma cpp
> directive (they disappear in the output)?
A feature I suppose. At least, it was a deliberate design choice. The
purpose of cpphs is to remove all # directives from the file, leaving
only Haskell (or plain text if you prefer). Now I realise that this is
not entirely true, since cpphs _does_ leave #line droppings unless you
specify the --noline option. But although most Haskell implementations
do read and use #line hints, I was not aware of any tools that make
further use of #pragma, and indeed quite the opposite - many tools break
if they see the latter.
> In version 0.6 of cpphs:
> * Recognise and ignore the #pragma cpp directive.
>
> Or what command line options could be used to preserve #pragma's in
> cpphs output?
I am happy to add an option (--pragmas maybe?) to preserve #pragma if
there is user demand. Check the cpphs darcs repository at
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/cpphs
for new patches.
Regards,
Malcolm
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