Re: traditional cpp

[Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:52 AM, David Holland 
<dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> I'm told that we need a traditional cpp for moving clang forward... so
> I wrote one.
>
>   http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~dholland/netbsd/tradcpp-20101220/
>
Too bad it is not portable outside NetBSD.

 - Arnaud

> This was written in about twelve hours so it's not exactly perfect,
> and some of the secondary features (most importantly -M and -MD)
> aren't fully implemented yet. It requires perhaps another evening's
> work to be fully viable.
>
> I also apparently don't have the right ideas about comment removal in
> traditional cpp, because it currently exhibits the behavior that
>
>   #define STOP */
>   #define START /*
>   /* hello there STOP fnord START ho hum */
>
> outputs "fnord", which cannot be what anyone intended. How's it
> supposed to be done? Right now it's removing comments after macro
> expansion, but if it removes comments before macro expansion then /**/
> doesn't work for pasting... or else it has to be treated specially and
> stripped out again afterwards?
>
> --
> David A. Holland
> dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
>