Ian Lynagh wrote:

With cpphs 0.7 "compiled" with hugs I get the following when trying to haddock missingh:

Program error: <handle>: IO.getContents: protocol error (invalid character encoding) missingh-0.16.2$ --------------

I believe this is because there is a mismatch between my locale and the encoding of the file, in particular with the \"o in Bjorn Bringert's name. I think opening the file in binary mode would fix this, but I couldn't swear to it.

Hmm. cpphs doesn't do anything special with character encodings, so I would guess this is a Hugs issue maybe? I'm afraid our work firewall blocks all outgoing traffic to port 70, so I can't download MissingH to try to reproduce the error. Also, as you noticed, cpphs-0.7 is kind of old now.

I tried upgrading to 1.2 to see if it is fixed, and trying to haddock missingh then gave an almighty pattern match failure.

Is there a more accessible mirror of MissingH anywhere?

A somewhat smaller failure occurs when trying to process /dev/null:

-------------- $ /tmp/cpphs/inst/bin/cpphs /dev/null

Program error: pattern match failure: macroProcess ((instEq_v4051 `elem` CpphsOption_CpphsLayout) []) Bool_True (preDefine ((instEq_v4051 `elem` CpphsOption_CpphsAnsi) []) Bool_True (runCpphs_v4067 [])) (tokenise_v3906 ((instEq_v4051 `elem` CpphsOption_CpphsAnsi) []) ((instEq_v4051 `elem` CpphsOption_CpphsStrip) []) SubMode_Any) $

I tried this with hugs-Sept2006 and could not reproduce the error. Mystified. Regards, Malcolm