What is cpp ???

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#9690

Author: NEUKLAUS%NEUVM1.BITNET
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1986 17:13

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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.

BITNET: NEUKLAUS@NEUVM1.BITNET

Re: What is cpp ???

#9709

Author: David Langdon
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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Re: What is cpp ???

#9725

Author: Guy Harris
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1986 19:32

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> CPP is the C language preprocessor which handles the '#' directives present
> in C programs...

More precisely, "cpp" is *a* C language preprocessor that, in some C
implementations (including most UNIX ones) handles the '#' directives
present in C programs.  It is certainly not present in every single C
implementation out there.
-- 
	Guy Harris
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	guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)

Re: What is cpp ???

#9735

Author: Brian Campbell
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1986 23:07

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CPP - C Pre-processor

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