Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!nike!cad!ucbvax!hplabs!tektronix!teklds!zeus!bobr From: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Datalight faster than 4.2, why? Message-ID: <275@zeus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 17:12:28 EDT Article-I.D.: zeus.275 Posted: Tue Jun 3 17:12:28 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Jun-86 19:44:42 EDT References: <697@bu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 9 In article <697@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes: > > I wonder out loud how hard it would be to turn CPP into a subroutine, > change its main() to cpp_main() and set up the call in the main() of > ccom,... What's the point? Sure, it consolidates the C compiler into one less load module, but the processing is still done as a separate pass, and should have no effect on performance or functionality.