From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA22812; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:41:41 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA23700 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:41:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pop9.ucdavis.edu (pop9.ucdavis.edu [169.237.105.19]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h9G8fc105721 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:41:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from beech (beech.ucdavis.edu [128.120.141.134]) by pop9.ucdavis.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/it-std-5.0.2) with ESMTP id h9G8fZ3E007264 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 01:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ijtrotts by beech with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AA3pr-0004Kb-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 01:50:19 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 01:50:19 -0700 From: Issac Trotts To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] camlidl and cpp Message-ID: <20031016085019.GA16626@ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; issac:01 trotts:01 ijtrotts:01 issac:01 trotts:01 idl:01 idl:01 camlidl:01 camlidl:01 ucdavis:02 unix:02 unix:02 cpp:05 cpp:05 confusion:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk It would be handy if camlidl would pass a "-traditional-cpp" flag to cpp by default. Here's an example on my Debian 3.0 box: $ camlidl unix.idl unix.idl:13:11: missing terminating " character unix.idl:43:1: missing terminating " character unix.idl:70:5: missing terminating " character unix.idl:72:58: missing terminating " character unix.idl:78:5: missing terminating " character unix.idl:79:41: missing terminating " character unix.idl:104:5: missing terminating " character unix.idl:151:5: missing terminating " character unix.idl: error during preprocessing $ camlidl -prepro "cpp -traditional-cpp" unix.idl The second way works just fine. Documenting this could prevent some confusion. Issac Trotts -- ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners