"Johan Nordlander"
So I'm going to check in a second variant where I have made the multi-platform linefeed handling conditional (MULTI_LINEFEED). It's currently turned on by default, but I can easily be persuaded to turn it off. However, the fix is pretty simple, it's really useful, and I also claim it's robust.
That makes good sense. I trust your judgement about the default setting. If any issues should arise, rolling a patch & new binary bundles is not much work.
To support that claim I've updated the test suite to test both plain and literate sources in three different newline formats (the last 6 tests in the static suite). This currently works very well on unix and MacOS, but it needs to be checked under Windows as well. Would you be able to verify this? If the test script can be run under Windows, all you have to do is load the files tests/static/Plain*.hs and tests/static/Lit*.lhs, and verify that the line number in the error messages are consistent (lines 6 and 9, respectively).
I tried this under both "cmd.exe" and "bash", and the line numbers come out right. --sigbjorn