Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 12:26:34 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Idea for project: Make cpp do unifdef service... Message-ID: <200111051926.fA5JQY0H013176@atg.aciworldwide.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 20:15:29 %2B0100." <78040.1004987729@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >Where does this leave people using alternate C compilers (e.g lcc)? > > unifdef is not something you use often so I don't see the issue... Maybe not, but it's defined to be a general-purpose tool, so it seems the fix doesn't belong in the pre-processor to a specific C compiler. unifdef's input domain is not just the C language. It can be applied to other types of files where conditional inclusion/exclusion is useful. (And yes, I've used it this way more than once.) --lyndon We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -- Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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