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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fortran could learn from C
Message-ID: <7397@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 2 Mar 88 17:58:46 GMT
References: <42586@sun.uucp> <1988Feb25.191646.7580@utzoo.uucp> <7358@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3872@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: cpp

In article <3872@ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) writes:
>I don't care if the preprocessing is integrated with the other phases of
>lexical analysis, just as long as it is possible for me to get the output
>from the preprocessor when I need it.  Will ANSI require that, or will it
>be implementation-dependent??

It's not required by the current draft proposed standard, and I doubt that
this will be changed.  It is a "quality of implementation" or even "customer
satisfaction" issue.

You may be able to obtain a separate C preprocessor commercially or even
for free (e.g. from the GNU project) that you could use during debugging.