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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: cpp vs. m4 for .s files
Message-ID: <16031@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 2 May 91 03:16:00 GMT
References: <1991May1.192158.13352@sctc.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991May1.192158.13352@sctc.com> scott@sctc.com (Scott Hammond) writes:
-Unix source tends to use m4 for macro and constant substitution.
-I was asked why cpp wouldn't work just as well, but I don't know.  Is
-there any reason one way or the other for choosing m4 vs. cpp for
-assembly language files?

Don't use cpp for anything, please.  It need not even exist.