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From: Olivier Andrieu <andrieu@ijm.jussieu.fr>
To: Kenneth Oksanen <cessu@hutcs.cs.hut.fi>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] autoconf and caml
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:53:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15735.21428.144717.331573@akasha.ijm.jussieu.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17mvfJ-00074V-00@hutcs.cs.hut.fi>

 Kenneth Oksanen [Thursday 5 September 2002] :
 > The extra whitespaces in the string constants are crucial.  The intent
 > of the output of ocamllex was that they would *not* be included in the
 > strings, but cpp mangles those strings so that they are included in
 > the strings, thereby producing a broken lexer.

In fact there are other pitfalls : cpp only accept lexically correct C
input but ocaml lexical conventions are different. For instance 'a
(type variables) are rejected by cpp if there are an odd number of
them on a line  ("missing terminating ' character").

-- 
   Olivier
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-05 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-04 15:20 Kenneth Oksanen
2002-09-05 11:57 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-09-05 12:23   ` Kenneth Oksanen
2002-09-05 12:53     ` Olivier Andrieu [this message]
2002-09-05 13:16     ` Lauri Alanko
2002-09-06 10:12       ` Kenneth Oksanen
2002-09-06 10:25         ` Jun P.FURUSE
2002-09-06 10:46         ` Yann Régis-Gianas
2002-09-06 10:56           ` Yaron M. Minsky
2002-09-06 11:07             ` Maxence Guesdon
2002-09-06 12:31               ` pa_ifdef [Was: Re: [Caml-list] autoconf and caml] Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-09-06 12:52                 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-09-08 10:07                   ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-09-09  8:59                     ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-09-06 11:33             ` [Caml-list] autoconf and caml Yann Régis-Gianas
2002-09-06 11:22               ` Yaron M. Minsky
2002-09-06 11:28                 ` Jérôme Marant
2002-09-06 11:41                   ` Yaron M. Minsky
2002-09-06  9:42   ` Hendrik Tews

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