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From: guido@piring.cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C preprocessor for humans
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Date: 28 Aug 89 13:46:27 GMT
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amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes:

>Can anyone recommend a filter through which I can run a source
>program devised by a brilliant hieroglyphist with an over-active
>macro imagination, utter disregard for indentation, and a penchant
>for constructions of questionable portability? 

I once saved a program called 'scpp' posted to the net, for selective
CPP.  It does quite a good job of expanding macros you'd like to get rid
of; much better than cc -E.  Indent would help with the rest of your
problems.

	--Guido

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