Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:23:32 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Idea for project: Make cpp do unifdef service... Message-ID: <20011105102332.A78169@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <76508.1004984302@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 07:18:22PM %2B0100 References: <20011105100711.A75324@dragon.nuxi.com> <76508.1004984302@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 07:18:22PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >Concidering that cpp is vendor software, there would need to be a strong > >case for it. What is wrong with just fixing unifdef(1) itself? > > Nothing, apart from the fact that it would be much more work. > > I'm pretty sure that it would be possible to get the GCC crew to > adopt a patch which added functionality to cppp. The whole cpp functionalty is in major flux. Some of it can be seen in the cpplib of GCC 3.0.2. `cpp' may even go away as a seperate binary in GCC 3.1 (or 3.2). Anyone considering this project should talk to Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> to see if this functionality would fit into work in progress. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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