What is cpp ???

David Langdon dml at rabbit1.UUCP
Mon Nov 3 23:25:15 AEST 1986


> 
>                   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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