cpp gone in 4.0 (Was: cpp vs. m4 for .s files)

john.urban urban at cbnewsl.att.com
Tue May 7 02:23:51 AEST 1991


In article <May.3.17.53.56.1991.10927 at romulus.rutgers.edu> plona at romulus.rutgers.edu (Lawrence Plona) writes:
>Although this has nothing to do with which is the better pre-processor,
>the 3.2 man page for cpp says not to use it because cpp is part of cc
>and is subject to change without notice. The cpp man page does not
>appear in the 4.0 documentation.

This is because cpp is completely gone for UNIX System V Release 4.0.  The
C Pre Processor is now built into cc - no longer a separate command.  Run cc -P
to run just the preprocessor part of cc.


Sincerely,
John Urban



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