Re: looking for C pre-processor

"Denis Gurchenkov" <dgurchenkov@excelsior-usa.com> wrote
> Could somebody point me to a C pre-processor that is provided with
> source code? It NEED NOT BE FREE - our customer agrees to pay for it.
> The most important properties are product quality and
> ease-of-modification.


I hope my response is useful, Denis.


I wrote a C preprocessor ten years ago and lost it, using C itself as
the development language. Since preprocessing is basically text
editing, it may not be difficult to roll your own. Unlike PL/I (which
had an enormously ambitious preprocessor that allowed you to use most
of the runtime features of PL/I, the syntax of C is fairly simple.


Since that time I have written "the" preprocessor for a simpler syntax
(that of Visual Basic) a few times. Again, it seemed a simple task.


I'm wary of my suggestion, for the customer may be tempted to request
cool features, and this will increase the development time.

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