Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!husc6!cca!g-rh 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 Lines: 15 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.