Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!infko!droege
From: droege@infko.UUCP (Detlev Droege)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: POSIX and the future of MINIX C
Summary: agcpp is buggy
Keywords: ANSI-C cpp
Message-ID: <495@infko.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 15:13:53 GMT
References: <552@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> <11100001@nixbln>
Reply-To: droege@infko.UUCP (Detlev Droege)
Organization: University of Koblenz (EWH), West Germany
Lines: 43

In article <11100001@nixbln> agc@nixbln.UUCP writes:
>
>Here's an (almost) ANSI-C conforming pre-processor. Please note that I
>haven't tested it under Minix. Please also note that there are two shell
>archives here. Now, how do I post this using notes?
>
>Regards,
>Alistair G. Crooks,

Well, it's a fine idea, but there seems to be a nasty bug.
I made it run on a SUN (4.2BSD) and another UNIX box (AT&T Sys V),
but in both cases the "squeeze long id-names" feature
didn't work. Example:

	main ()
	{
		int     long_name1;
		int     long_name2;
		int     long_name3;

		exit (0);
	}

yields in

	main ()
	{
		int     long_name1;
		int     i00000;
		int     i00000;         /* <<<=== baaahhh !!! */

		exit (0);
	}

I couldn't trace down the bug in agcpp itself, maybe someone else
did ...

	Waiting for agcpp-patch#1
		Detlev
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