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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Subject: Re: cpp
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.213418.23987@dsuvax.uucp>
Organization: Dakota State University
References: <33354@usc>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1991 21:34:18 GMT

In <33354@usc> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:

>I got a port of gnu-cpp from earlier this year when Guy Helmer posted
>it.  This also compiles just fine with bcc, but it also gags a little
>bit on those *.x files in the kernel.

I wondered when someone would notice :-(.  C preprocessors, or at least
ANSI ones, must know about literal strings and characters in the input.
There are comments in the .x files that have apostraphes in them, and
this C preprocessor doesn't appreciate apostraphes anywhere in the
input unless they are enclosed in C-style /* comments. */

My solution: I took all the apostraphes out of the .x files.  Unfortunately,
I neglected to mention it when I posted the C preprocessor.

>Where can I get a working cpp?  What modifications do I need to do so it
>will work on all those *.x files?  What's the big secret?

>I've been bashing my head against the wall all night.  It's 6:00 am
>local time.  I'm going to bed.  I hope that when I get up some nice
>person will have left some mail in my mailbox.  Thank you.

Hope this helps.

>-- 
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