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| <h1 class="settitle" align="center">The GNU C Preprocessor Internals</h1> |
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| <li><a name="toc-Cpplib_002d_002d_002dthe-GNU-C-Preprocessor" href="#Cpplib_002d_002d_002dthe-GNU-C-Preprocessor">1 Cpplib—the GNU C Preprocessor</a></li> |
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| <h2 class="chapter">1 Cpplib—the GNU C Preprocessor</h2> |
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| <p>The GNU C preprocessor is |
| implemented as a library, <em>cpplib</em>, so it can be easily shared between |
| a stand-alone preprocessor, and a preprocessor integrated with the C, |
| C++ and Objective-C front ends. It is also available for use by other |
| programs, though this is not recommended as its exposed interface has |
| not yet reached a point of reasonable stability. |
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| <p>The library has been written to be re-entrant, so that it can be used |
| to preprocess many files simultaneously if necessary. It has also been |
| written with the preprocessing token as the fundamental unit; the |
| preprocessor in previous versions of GCC would operate on text strings |
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| <p>This brief manual documents the internals of cpplib, and explains some |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Conventions.html#Conventions" accesskey="1">Conventions</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Conventions used in the code. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Macro-Expansion.html#Macro-Expansion" accesskey="4">Macro Expansion</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Macro expansion algorithm. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Guard-Macros.html#Guard-Macros" accesskey="7">Guard Macros</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Optimizing header files with guard macros. |
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