Want the word on __STDC__
Michael Meissner
meissner at osf.org
Sat Feb 23 06:26:38 AEST 1991
In article <2961 at cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
| In <1991Feb20.175702.28682 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu
| (Henry Spencer) writes:
|
| ...since many C compilers do not *have* a separate preprocessor.
|
| I may have to eat my words, but after extensive searching, I haven't
| yet found any commercially available C compiler that wasn't accompanied
| by a separately invokable preprocessor.
The Data General AOS/VS C compiler (and the DG/UX MV/Eclipse C
compiler which was the same beast repackaged for unix) had the
preprocessor as part of the tokenizer. This is from the horse's
mouth, since I wrote the compiler front end, and the preprocessor
never was a separate program. It started shipping in the 1982 time
frame.
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Michael Meissner email: meissner at osf.org phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
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