[Haskell-cafe] Using stringize and string concatenation in ghc preprocessing

[Harendra Kumar]

Thanks Mathieu. This works pretty well for gcc (
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Traditional-macros.html) but sadly it
does not work for clang cpp as Brandon too pointed out earlier that clang
does not have a traditional mode.

-harendra

On 22 August 2016 at 02:01, Boespflug, Mathieu <m at tweag.io> wrote:

> Hi Harendra,
>
> I ran into this very problem recently. Turns out -traditional knows string
> concatenation too. I seem to remember learning this by browsing the GHC
> source code, but now I can't find any occurrence of this pattern. But
> here's an example of how to do string concatenation with CPP in
> -traditional mode: https://github.com/tweag/sparkle/blob/
> a4e481aa5180b6ec93c219f827aefe932b66a953/inline-java/src/
> Foreign/JNI.hs#L274.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Mathieu Boespflug
> Founder at http://tweag.io.
>
> On 20 August 2016 at 20:33, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Harendra Kumar <harendra.kumar at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> But "-optP" seems to only append to the flags that GHC already passes
>>> and gcc has no "-no-traditional" option to undo the effect of the
>>> "-traditional" that GHC has already passed. I think "-optP" should override
>>> the flags passed by ghc rather than appending to them. Is there a reason
>>> not to do that?
>>>
>>> Is there any other better way to achieve this? What is the standard way
>>> of doing this if any?
>>>
>>
>> Removing -traditional will break much Haskell source. Go look at the
>> history of clang with ghc (clang doesn't do -traditional) to see what
>> happens. (tl;dr: without -traditional, cpp knows too much about what
>> constitutes valid C, and mangles and/or throws errors on valid Haskell that
>> doesn't lex the way C does.)
>>
>> You might want to look at cpphs as an alternative preprocessor. There are
>> some ancient K&R-era hacks that could be used if absolutely necessary, but
>> cpphs should be a much simpler and cleaner solution.
>>
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