From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 5 11:26:39 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 8C1BF37B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:26:36 -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 fA5JQY0H013176; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:26:34 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200111051926.fA5JQY0H013176@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 20:15:29 +0100." <78040.1004987729@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 12:26:34 -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 > >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... Maybe not, but it's defined to be a general-purpose tool, so it seems the fix doesn't belong in the pre-processor to a specific C compiler. unifdef's input domain is not just the C language. It can be applied to other types of files where conditional inclusion/exclusion is useful. (And yes, I've used it this way more than once.) --lyndon We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -- Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message