bjpop:
> Hi,
>
> Something very mysterious is happening when buddha is built with
> GHC 6.2 on machines that have gcc 3.3.x
>
> This bug has occurred on these two machines so far:
>
> Gentoo linux with gcc 3.3.2
> FreeBSD with gcc 3.3.3
>
> Both x86 machines.
>
> Note however, that the bug does not appear on machines with
> gcc 2.x series compilers.
>
> buddha can be downloaded from:
>
> www.cs.mu.oz.au/~bjpop/buddha
>
> The file in question is (from the buddha soure package):
>
> prelude/Buddha/List_B.hs
>
> GHC gives a parse error on this line of code:
>
> infix 5 \\
>
> The error message is:
>
> List_B.hs:23: parse error on input `\'
>
> I don't think there is any parse error in the file, and GHC 6.2 with gcc 2.x
> doesn't think so either.
I'm pretty sure SimonM mentioned something on the list a few months ago
about gcc3-cpp changing the way it processes the end of \
line style tokens.
It would be in the archives, and maybe in the user's guide (there's
something about string gaps in there, at least).
Cheers,
Don
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