What is cpp ???

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Thu Nov 6 05:32:12 AEST 1986


> CPP is the C language preprocessor which handles the '#' directives present
> in C programs...

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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