[project @ 1997-09-23 15:32:20 by simonm]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / docs / users_guide / how_to_run.lit

diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/how_to_run.lit b/ghc/docs/users_guide/how_to_run.lit
index 52617ef..672a9e7 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/how_to_run.lit
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/how_to_run.lit
@@ -717,9 +717,23 @@ Options other than the above can be forced through to the C
 pre-processor with the \tr{-opt} flags (see
 \sectionref{forcing-options-through}).
 
-A small word of warning: \tr{-cpp} is not friendly to
-``string gaps''.\index{-cpp vs string gaps}\index{string gaps vs -cpp}
+A small word of warning: \tr{-cpp} is not friendly to ``string
+gaps''.\index{-cpp vs string gaps}\index{string gaps vs -cpp}.  In
+other words, strings such as the following:
 
+\begin{verbatim}
+       strmod = "\
+       \ p \
+       \ "
+\end{verbatim}
+
+don't work with \tr{-cpp}; \tr{/usr/bin/cpp} elides the
+backslash-newline pairs.
+
+However, it appears that if you add a space at the end of the line,
+then \tr{cpp} (at least GNU \tr{cpp} and possibly other \tr{cpp}s)
+leaves the backslash-space pairs alone and the string gap works as
+expected.
 
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