Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!csun!aeusemrs From: aeusemrs@csun.UUCP (Mike Stump) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: A Deficiency of the C Preprocessor Message-ID: <484@csun.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 19:54:47 EST Article-I.D.: csun.484 Posted: Mon Dec 22 19:54:47 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 22:44:31 EST References: <1259@kontron.UUCP> Reply-To: aeusemrs@csun.UUCP (Mike Stump) Organization: California State University, Northridge Lines: 15 In article <1259@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: >I've got a complaint about the C preprocessor -- I doesn't support a >repetition for initializing data structures. [ edited for space ] >Clayton E. Cramer Clayton, if you are running Unix System V, all of your problems are solved; there is another preprocessor called 'm4' that will do what you want, and then some. (This might also be true of other systems.) But if you are not running System V, then you will find that you will probably have to continue to do what you have been doing, or write a simple (or complex :-)) preprocessor to do what you want. Mike Stump