What is cpp ???
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Hi C people.
I am new at this list, and I just heard about 'cpp'. Can anyone tell
me what it is? (A compiler :-))) ?).
Thanks for your help.
Klaus Elmquist Nielsen.
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David Langdon
> Hi C people.
>
> I am new at this list, and I just heard about 'cpp'. Can anyone tell
> me what it is? (A compiler :-))) ?).
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Klaus Elmquist Nielsen.
>
CPP is the C language preprocessor which handles the '#' directives present
in C programs (#include, #define, #undef, #if/#ifdef/#else/#elif/#endif, etc).
It is usually run as the first step in the compilation process to bring in
all #include-d source references, handle conditional compilation for the
#if set of directives and replace all #define-d references in the source
code.
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Guy Harris
More precisely, "cpp" is *a* C language preprocessor that, in some C
implementations (including most UNIX ones) handles the '#' directives
present in C programs. It is certainly not present in every single C
implementation out there.
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