Kenneth Oksanen [Thursday 5 September 2002] :
 > The extra whitespaces in the string constants are crucial.  The intent
 > of the output of ocamllex was that they would *not* be included in the
 > strings, but cpp mangles those strings so that they are included in
 > the strings, thereby producing a broken lexer.

In fact there are other pitfalls : cpp only accept lexically correct C
input but ocaml lexical conventions are different. For instance 'a
(type variables) are rejected by cpp if there are an odd number of
them on a line  ("missing terminating ' character").

-- 
   Olivier
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