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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Cake (was Recursive #includes)
Message-ID: <9788@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Mar 89 01:06:55 GMT
References: <20078@santra.UUCP> <2712@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2712@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>The example you gave demonstrates a problem with cpp, and cake
>runs its input through cpp.

Which is yet another error in the implementation of "cake".
/lib/cpp, when it exists, is not intended to be used except via "cc",
and there is no guarantee that /lib/cpp (or "cc -E") will even exist.