NEUKLAUS%NEUVM1.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA (10/31/86)
Hi C people. I am new at this list, and I just heard about 'cpp'. Can anyone tell me what it is? (A compiler :-))) ?). Thanks for your help. Klaus Elmquist Nielsen. BITNET: NEUKLAUS@NEUVM1.BITNET
dml@rabbit1.UUCP (David Langdon) (11/03/86)
> > Hi C people. > > I am new at this list, and I just heard about 'cpp'. Can anyone tell > me what it is? (A compiler :-))) ?). > > Thanks for your help. > Klaus Elmquist Nielsen. > CPP is the C language preprocessor which handles the '#' directives present in C programs (#include, #define, #undef, #if/#ifdef/#else/#elif/#endif, etc). It is usually run as the first step in the compilation process to bring in all #include-d source references, handle conditional compilation for the #if set of directives and replace all #define-d references in the source code. -- David Langdon Rabbit Software Corp. (215) 647-0440 7 Great Valley Parkway East Malvern PA 19355 ...!ihnp4!{cbmvax,cuuxb}!hutch!dml ...!psuvax1!burdvax!hutch!dml
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (11/05/86)
> CPP is the C language preprocessor which handles the '#' directives present > in C programs... More precisely, "cpp" is *a* C language preprocessor that, in some C implementations (including most UNIX ones) handles the '#' directives present in C programs. It is certainly not present in every single C implementation out there. -- Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)
brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) (11/06/86)
CPP - C Pre-processor