M4 macro processor

[Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR]

As quoted from <120737 at uunet.UU.NET> by rbj at uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
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| In article <873 at fnx.UUCP> del at fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes:
| ?I have an application that is just screaming for something like a 
| ?macro-processor.  The C pre-processor is no good because the files
| ?I need to deal with are Motorola assembly sources which use '#'
| ?to signify a constant value as opposed to a memory reference.
| 
| cpp only cares about # if it's the first nonwhite char on a line.
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...unless it conforms to ANSI C, in which case it considers # other than
column 1 to be a token concatenation command.

"m4" is documented in the Programmer's Guide (*not* the Reference, that's the
manpages).

++Brandon
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