#12414: Ill-formed or incorrect multiline string in compiler/main/GHC.hs -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ifigueroap | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: lowest | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: Other Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Dear all, After trying to (indirectly) parse GHC.hs using hothasktags, I kept getting an "Illegal character in string gap" error. After reconstructing the file using cpphs I found that the issue is caused by an incorrect multiline string in the raw (i.e. before cpp includes) GHC.hs, that trips the (perhaps stricter?) parser in haskell-src-exts... The following part of the code: {{{#!hs Nothing -> panic "compileToCoreModule: target FilePath not found in\ module dependency graph" }}} should be {{{#!hs Nothing -> panic "compileToCoreModule: target FilePath not found in\ \module dependency graph" }}} It seems the issue goes back to several other versions of the file. Of course it is not really a big deal, but it was hard to trigger (try to parse the file with haskell-src-exts), and to hunt!! Best regards -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12414 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler