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From: Alan_T._Cote.OsbuSouth@Xerox.COM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fortran could learn from C
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Date: 4 Mar 88 06:35:17 GMT
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In article <7397@brl-smoke.ARPA>, Doug Gwyn <gwyn@brl-smoke.arpa> writes:
>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.

Isn't the free preprocessor likely to disagree with the (New! Improved :-)
compiler?  I would want the output from such a preprocessor to accurately
reflect the interpretation the compiler would place on the code, and if the two
programs don't agree about what the source code means, then the output of a
separate preprocessor is next to useless!