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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C's Limited Macro Capabilities
Message-ID: <7220@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 6 Dec 89 23:38:09 GMT
References: <69517@psuecl.bitnet> <11250@csli.Stanford.EDU> <3311@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> <24736@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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In article <24736@cup.portal.com> Tim_N_Roberts@cup.portal.com writes:
> Remember that most (all?) Unix implementations include M4, which is
> a rather powerful macro expansion facility.  It would be perfectly
> feasible to have your makefile call M4 before invoking cc.

C does not imply UNIX. It's fun to bitch about MS-DOS specific junk floating
around in here, but assuming that UNIX == C is worse.
-- 
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