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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: M4 macro processor
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.014734.4955@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 5 Feb 91 01:47:34 GMT
References: <873@fnx.UUCP> <120737@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast)
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As quoted from <120737@uunet.UU.NET> by rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
+---------------
| In article <873@fnx.UUCP> del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes:
| ?I have an application that is just screaming for something like a 
| ?macro-processor.  The C pre-processor is no good because the files
| ?I need to deal with are Motorola assembly sources which use '#'
| ?to signify a constant value as opposed to a memory reference.
| 
| cpp only cares about # if it's the first nonwhite char on a line.
+---------------

...unless it conforms to ANSI C, in which case it considers # other than
column 1 to be a token concatenation command.

"m4" is documented in the Programmer's Guide (*not* the Reference, that's the
manpages).

++Brandon
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