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Article #9709Re: What is cpp ???
From: David Langdon
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1986 13:25
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1986 13:25
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> Hi C people.
>
> I am new at this list, and I just heard about 'cpp'. Can anyone tell
> me what it is? (A compiler :-))) ?).
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Klaus Elmquist Nielsen.
>
CPP is the C language preprocessor which handles the '#' directives present
in C programs (#include, #define, #undef, #if/#ifdef/#else/#elif/#endif, etc).
It is usually run as the first step in the compilation process to bring in
all #include-d source references, handle conditional compilation for the
#if set of directives and replace all #define-d references in the source
code.
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