cpp chokes on 1986th #define

[Chantal Eide]

I called the AT&T software service hotline.  They sent a patch to
/lib/cpp which allows 20% more #defines.  This seems to do the trick
so far.

Suggestions ranged from writing my own preprocessor to cutting down on
#defines to porting the GNU cpp.  The latter seemed most reasonable
for our application, so I tried it.  Sure enough, the cpp choked with
too many #defines while I was trying to port.  I could have commented
out a few, but at about that time the /lib/cpp patch came through.

Thanks for all the feedback.


Chantal Eide
ceide at bbn.com
BBN Systems and Technologies Corp.