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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: C preprocessor for VMS needed desperately
Message-ID: <121@obie.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 16:13:52 GMT
References: <134@insyte.uucp>
Organization: the Well of Souls
Lines: 17
Keywords: large macros, include search paths
Summary: Rewrite the DECUS one!

In article <134@insyte.uucp>, jad@insyte.uucp (Jill Diewald) writes:
| I have one preprocessor (I think its the DECUS one) and I can recompile
| it with very large internal buffers.  It does solve the large macro
| problem but it doesn't use the correct include library search (It expects 
| everything on the current directory or specified with the -I option).  
| I need the preprocessor to use the C$INCLUDE and VAXC$INCLUDE logicals 
| to find the include files.

Why don't you find the code for "#including" files in the DECUS cpp
and re-write it to search C$INCLUDE and VAXC$INCLUDE?  It shouldn't be
too difficult using the `fwild' function from the DECUS library, if
you have that.
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