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From: egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: cpp.c desperately needed
Message-ID: <17645@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 88 22:49:00 GMT
References: <12285@brl-adm.ARPA> <148@amcad.UUCP>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <148@amcad.UUCP>, billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton) writes:
> I need a pd cpp as well.  Our compiler doesn't handle #define's longer
> than eight chars (nor variables either).  At least with a decent cpp I
> could just create a header file with #define THIS_IS_TOO_LONG TITL 
> for each of the conflicting #define's rather than having to sed all the
> source and keep two copies around -- one normal and one with short
> names. 

the PD decus cpp was one of the first postings to mod.sources.

the only problem is that it was based on an early ANSI draft,
and has # as the concatenation operator and probably other incompatabilites.
has anyone changed the program to reflect a more recent ANSI draft?