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From: pato@apollo.COM (chc 02 rd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: /usr/lib/cpp has trouble outputting long lines??
Keywords: /usr/lib/cpp, X.V11R2, imake
Message-ID: <3e3050a4.12edf@apollo.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 88 14:43:00 GMT
References: <15567@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: pato@apollo.COM (Joe Pato)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
Lines: 17

In article <15567@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> casey@CS.UCLA.EDU (Casey Leedom) writes:
>
>  Just ran into a strange one here.  Apparently the SR9.7 /usr/lib/cpp has
>problems outputting extremely long lines.  When the imake program
>distributed with X.V11R2 tried to use /usr/lib/cpp to process the top
>level Imakefile, /usr/lib/cpp introduced newlines in its output lines
>where no newlines were present in its input lines.
>
. . .
>
>Casey

The sr9.7 /usr/lib/cpp intentionally breaks long lines.  This facility was
provided to avoid the problem that the 9.7 C compiler had with reading input
lines longer than 256 characters.

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