Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: ANSI C and the C Pre-Processor Message-ID: <387@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 13:41:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.387 Posted: Thu Oct 4 13:41:56 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 20:45:43 EDT References: <9110@watmath.UUCP> <> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 26 Summary: > Article <> > From: mwm@ea.UUCP > /***** ea:net.lang.c / utzoo!henry / 4:20 am Sep 25, 1984 */ > As for what should be done to bring back the lost functionality... the > ANSI C folks have basically said "if you want a general-purpose macro > processor, use m4". The programs that this "change" will break are > broken already, and should be fixed to do it right. > -- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry > /* ---------- */ > > Great. Another tool that's nearly vital for writing C, but not available > on most (all) non-Unix systems. Anybody got pointers to a public domain > m4? > >