HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (07/25/90)
When trying to use the pre-processor with C-TeX, cpp gave an error message
at the same source line even if I increased the stack size to 500KBytes.
This must be another restriction of cpp, perhaps the value range of
16-bit ints etc. (BTW, the error is not there of course, cpp complains
about non-ascii characters).
Well, C-TeX is a hard job for a preprocessor (more than 100KB include files),
but has anyone had such problems before?
What can be considered as a possible replacement: I have gnu cpp (is it
that big?) and decus cpp (I think a pirate version of some commercial stuff).
.
C.v.W.
P.S. everything compiles well on a workstation using c68. I will try to
carry over the assembler files, but I would like to be able to rebuild
everything on the 68k box.minix%hsr.uninett@nac.no (minix) (07/26/90)
In a recent message Christoph van Wuellen <HBO043@DJUKFA11.bitnet> asked: >>What can be considered as a possible replacement: I have gnu cpp (is it >>that big?) and decus cpp (I think a pirate version of some commercial stuff). >> . >>C.v.W. >> In the X11R4 release there is a preprocessor in the mit/util/cpp directory. (I think it existed in R3 too.) I ported this to minix (PC) once without any significant problems. Compared to the ack cpp, it turned out to have a little larger code-segment and a little smaller data-segment. Unfortunately I don't have patches easily available, but it wasn't a difficult program to port. I have not done any extensive testing of the program. Bjarne Steinsbo <bjarne@hsr.no>
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (07/30/90)
If that preprocessor you mentioned works well, it makes sense to post it since the cpp for MINIX is binary-only. Posting makes sense since not all listeners to this newsgroup are on usenet and can fetch the files you mentioned. C.v.W.