Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Want the word on __STDC__ Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 19:26:38 GMT References: <4755@lib.tmc.edu> <1991Feb20.175702.28682@zoo.toronto.edu> <2961@cirrusl.UUCP> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 23 In-reply-to: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com's message of 21 Feb 91 19:12:23 GMT In article <2961@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes: | In <1991Feb20.175702.28682@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu | (Henry Spencer) writes: | | ...since many C compilers do not *have* a separate preprocessor. | | I may have to eat my words, but after extensive searching, I haven't | yet found any commercially available C compiler that wasn't accompanied | by a separately invokable preprocessor. The Data General AOS/VS C compiler (and the DG/UX MV/Eclipse C compiler which was the same beast repackaged for unix) had the preprocessor as part of the tokenizer. This is from the horse's mouth, since I wrote the compiler front end, and the preprocessor never was a separate program. It started shipping in the 1982 time frame. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?