[Coco] MW-C Cross compiler bug - Solved

[Theodore (Alex) Evans]

On 03/06/2014 09:43 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using the C cross compiler on linux and I found a strange and
> annoying bug all the time it kinda messed up with the variable names
> and I had to put (int) and other parenthesis in order to avoid those
> bugs. The they appeared completely in an arbitrary fashion with no
> defined pattern so far. I had to type a line and try to compile...
>
> I was about to ditch this freaking compiler when I found the culprit:
> the coprep doesn't like any indentation at all. The solution was
> adding a small preprocessor before the C preprocessor.
>
> So you change the cc file into:
>
> echo "Preprocess.."
> sed 's/^[ \t]*//' $1 > $name.ns
> coprep $name.ns > $name.m
> [ $? = 0 ] || exit 1
> rm $name.ns
>
> The sed 's/^[ \t]*//' $1 > $name.ns will strip all leading spaces and
> tabs and the coprep will happily preprocess your C code.
>
> Now I can keep coding in peace...

After thinking about this for a while.  Could it be that it doesn't like 
tabs as opposed to not liking indents?  It would make a whole lot more 
sense.