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From: g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: C compilers with integrated preprocessors
Keywords: preprocessor,comments
Message-ID: <33440@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 88 16:52:18 GMT
References: <5438@techunix.BITNET> <13544@mimsy.UUCP> <779@proxftl.UUCP> <13604@mimsy.UUCP> <3999@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: g-rh@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Richard Harter)
Organization: Xerox Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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In article <3999@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

>It is agreed that a Real ANSI-conforming C compiler might not supply a
>separate preprocessor pass, but who cares?  Such a C compiler would be
>an instant commercial failure.

	I do not doubt your word, but...  I currently work with Primos C
and DEC's VAX C.  I don't know how to make an in independent preprocessor
run for these systems.  If anyone can tell me how to do this, I would be
enchanted to hear about it.
-- 

In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.
	Richard Harter, SMDS  Inc.