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From: allison@convex.com (Brian Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.unix.cray
Subject: Re: why has Cray dropped CPP support from cf77?
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.190424.22590@convex.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 19:04:24 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.162007.28774@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb19.203555.8262@craycos.com> <1991Feb19.230305.22563@convex.com> <1991Feb20.101450.18745@robobar.co.uk>
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In article <1991Feb20.101450.18745@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>Is there any reason why vendors like Cray an Convex shouldn't make
>use of /usr/local/lib/gcc-cpp -traditional for these purposes ?
>(in other words, why not retain the availability of a reasonably
>traditional cpp ?)

I don't know about Cray, but Convex's cpp has a -pcc switch to force it to
(quoting the man page) "behave compatibly with earlier preprocessors that
were not ANSI C conforming."  The C compiler has the same switch.
-- 
Brian Allison			"If pro and con are opposites, is
Convex Computer Corp.		 Congress the opposite of progress?"
Richardson, TX					- Richard Lederer