why has Cray dropped CPP support from cf77?

Brian Allison allison at convex.com
Thu Feb 21 06:04:24 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb20.101450.18745 at robobar.co.uk> ronald at robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>Is there any reason why vendors like Cray an Convex shouldn't make
>use of /usr/local/lib/gcc-cpp -traditional for these purposes ?
>(in other words, why not retain the availability of a reasonably
>traditional cpp ?)

I don't know about Cray, but Convex's cpp has a -pcc switch to force it to
(quoting the man page) "behave compatibly with earlier preprocessors that
were not ANSI C conforming."  The C compiler has the same switch.
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