[cfe-dev] Preprocessing and whitespace collapsing

[Anders Bakken]

That would be ideal for us. I'll see if I could manage to whip something up.

Anders

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 14, 2014, at 10:35 , Argyrios Kyrtzidis <akyrtzi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A) Turn this behavior off with an option?
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>
> Yes, with "-traditional-cpp”
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>
> Please note that this mode is pretty brittle. -traditional-cpp has a lot of
> baggage, such as not treating indented "#something" as directives. It's also
> not fully compatbile with GCC's -traditional-cpp, and continuing to work on
> it is not something we're really interested in since it can slow down
> regular preprocessing. (I had to fight with Richard Smith to get a
> compatibility fix in several months ago, and honestly I tend to agree with
> him.)
>
> I imagine we'd accept patches to split the whitespace-preserving behavior
> out from the rest of -traditional-cpp as long as it doesn't slow down the
> preprocessor.
>
> Jordan