could you do a language-c release that uses 7.8 compat happy and alex?

[Benedikt Huber]

Hi Anthony,

I looked at your changes for Apple's attribute syntax using diff:

- The value assigned to the attribute is silently discarded, right? As 
the result of the attribute parser is a CExpr, it seems more natural to 
return a CAssign statement that keeps both the left- and right-hand-side.

- We should reference the specific extension addressed. A look at the 
clang parser shows that they use different special-purpose parsers for 
different attributes - in this case the "availability attribute", see 
http://llvm.org/releases/3.1/tools/clang/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#availability.

- I think it is a ok to avoid custom attribute parsers and simply extend 
the grammar to allow assignments, as you did, although parsing versions 
as floating-point numbers is probably not 100% future proof ;)

Would you mind preparing a patch, either against the darcs repo or the 
github mirror (http://github.com/visq/language-c forked from Carter's 
import)?

cheers, benedikt

> Anthony Cowley <mailto:acowley at gmail.com>
> 10 Apr 2014 20:54
> I encountered the problem in c2hs, at which point I discovered this 
> issue thread: https://github.com/haskell/c2hs/issues/57
>
> So it was a "won't fix" from c2hs due to language-c being 
> unmaintained. It looks like these sorts of conversations happened 
> without looping Benedikt in.
>
> It will be great to see this resolved, and though nobody asked, 
> consider this a preemptive +1 for giving the project some official 
> presence on github.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Apr 10, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Carter Schonwald 
> <carter.schonwald at gmail.com <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Carter Schonwald <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
> 10 Apr 2014 20:27
> huh, maybe anthony reached out the wrong way, i'll cc him now
>
>
>
> Benedikt Huber <mailto:benedikt.huber at gmail.com>
> 10 Apr 2014 20:15
>
>
>> Carter Tazio Schonwald <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
>> 10 Apr 2014 19:31
>> its looking like you didn't do it correctly, the happy and alex 
>> updates weren't in your path!,
> That was indeed the case, my bad. Apparently the instructions weren't 
> 100% foolproof ;)
>> Anthony Cowley has been defacto making sure language-c works on OS X 
>> 10.9 / modern clang for a while now with his wee branch, have you 
>> merged in his patches as yet? If not, why not?
> I did not know about the "wee" branch, because I was not aware of it. 
> If I remember correctly, Anthony Cowley neither notified me, nor the 
> language-c mailing list.
> What do you mean by "make sure language-c works"? Patches for dealing 
> with Apple extensions used in the system headers? That would be great, 
> I recently switched to OS X 10.9 as well, and noticed the problem with 
> non-standard attribute syntax, for example.
>> either way, 0.4.5 is needed :/
> Sure, I'll take care of updating, and look at the patches if I can 
> find them.
> Again, thanks a lot for taking care of this issue.
>
> cheers, benedikt
>>
>>
>> -Carter
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Benedikt Huber wrote:
>>
>>
>> Benedikt Huber <mailto:benedikt.huber at gmail.com>
>> 10 Apr 2014 07:28
>> Dear Carter,
>> thanks for the notification! I followed your instructions and 
>> uploaded language-c-0.4.4.
>> cheers, benedikt
>> Carter Tazio Schonwald <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
>> 10 Apr 2014 02:58
>> Hello!
>> language-c on hackage wasn't prepped with the most recent happy and 
>> alex, so it can't build with 7.8
>>
>> if you do
>> > cd language-c-directory
>> > rm dist
>> > cabal update ; cabal install happy alex
>> >  #bump minor version in cabal file here
>> > cabal sdist # to prep with new alex and happy
>> > cabal upload
>> > #happy times
>>
>> please let me know if ya'll can do that in the next few days, if not, 
>> i have admin acls on ahckage and can do it myself
>> (but i'd rather not)
>>
>> -Carter
>>
>>
> Carter Tazio Schonwald <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
> 10 Apr 2014 19:31
> its looking like you didn't do it correctly, the happy and alex 
> updates weren't in your path!
> I bet you dont have ~/.cabal/bin in your path.
>
> (ie the 0.4.4 version wasn't generated with the current happy / alex, 
> i had to cabal get language-c ; cd langauge-c-0.4.4 ; rm -rf dist ; 
> cabal build, to get it to build).
>
> tl;dr -- wasnt fresh happy and alex in your path .
> if you do --version, you should get
>
> $ alex --version
> Alex version 3.1.3, (c) 2003 Chris Dornan and Simon Marlow
> $ happy --version
> Happy Version 1.19.3 Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Andy Gill, Simon Marlow 
> (c) 1997-2005 Simon Marlow
>
> if they're properly up to date that should be the versions emmitted
>
> Anthony Cowley has been defacto making sure language-c works on OS X 
> 10.9 / modern clang for a while now with his wee branch, have you 
> merged in his patches as yet? If not, why not?
>
> either way, 0.4.5 is needed :/
>
>
> -Carter
>
>
> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Benedikt Huber wrote:
>
>
> Benedikt Huber <mailto:benedikt.huber at gmail.com>
> 10 Apr 2014 07:28
> Dear Carter,
> thanks for the notification! I followed your instructions and uploaded 
> language-c-0.4.4.
> cheers, benedikt