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Date:      Mon, 05 Nov 2001 20:15:29 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Idea for project: Make cpp do unifdef service... 
Message-ID:  <78040.1004987729@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:48:16 MST." <200111051848.fA5ImG0H012663@atg.aciworldwide.com> 

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In message <200111051848.fA5ImG0H012663@atg.aciworldwide.com>, Lyndon Nerenberg
 writes:
>> >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)?

unifdef is not something you use often so I don't see the issue...

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