From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 5 10:48:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from atg.aciworldwide.com (h139-142-180-4.gtcust.grouptelecom.net [139.142.180.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B22E37B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from atg.aciworldwide.com (atg.aciworldwide.com [139.142.180.33]) by atg.aciworldwide.com (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fA5ImG0H012663; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:48:16 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200111051848.fA5ImG0H012663@atg.aciworldwide.com> Organization: ACI Worldwide - Advanced Technology Group X-URL: http://www.aciworldwide.com/ X-Notes-Item: Just say NO to Notes! To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Idea for project: Make cpp do unifdef service... In-Reply-To: Message from Poul-Henning Kamp of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 19:18:22 +0100." <76508.1004984302@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:48:16 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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. Where does this leave people using alternate C compilers (e.g lcc)? --lyndon Lizzie Borden took an axe, And plunged it deep into the VAX; Don't you envy people who Do all the things YOU want to do? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message