Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!news.ecp.fr!nuzba.szn.dk!news.szn.dk!pnx.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:33:19 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux References: <3uuf071k5c0b32cdlv31s7p1u6cjn3t11j@4ax.com> <71ph07l246l93uf4umn5tjgp6dtfgnr4a9@4ax.com> <4e28c7a0$0$308$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4e2ae67d$0$303$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <2aca8f06-1dc8-4fff-b7f1-0e35eea32d2f@f39g2000prb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <2aca8f06-1dc8-4fff-b7f1-0e35eea32d2f@f39g2000prb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 59 Message-ID: <4e2b05e3$0$310$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.192.23.157 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=k=3ICHACWlmOHBD=iT>F;gYSB=nbEKnkk7cBi_\`T1kcJPe3\kP5EUaKBm9cfh9BSdM2;kT<[:>[a>aTjDG?in[f>d1lCFl^iH` X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6470 On 7/23/2011 12:20 PM, lewbloch wrote: > On Jul 23, 8:19 am, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 7/23/2011 9:19 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: >>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:35:00 -0700, Gene Wirchenko wrote: >> >>>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:43:10 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> >>>>> On 6/27/2011 4:12 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:04:11 -0400, Joshua Cranmer >>>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>>> On 06/26/2011 11:42 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: >>>>>>>> Think simple version of the C preprocessor. >> >>>>>>> Then why not use the C preprocessor? >> >>>>>> I could not find one that would run standalone on my system. >> >>>>> Almost all C compiler has a way to do only preprocessing. >> >>>>> GCC, MS, DEC/CPQ/HP etc. has. >> >>>> I did not want a C compiler. I simply wanted a preprocessor. >> >>> The last C compilers I remember that had separate preprocessors were K&R, >>> so were very old. In these, cc was effectively a shell that invoked the >>> preprocessor, the C --> assembler translator, the assembler and the >>> linker in turn. Actually, I'm still using one - the standard OS/9 v2.4 C >>> compiler, which dates from 1992 and runs on 68xxx hardware. >> >>> I don't remember any ANSI C compilers I've used being structured this >>> way: certainly I've not seen any version of the GNU compiler or its >>> derivatives that aren't a monolithic chunk that includes all compilation >>> stages except the linker. AFAICR this also applied to the Borland >>> compilers. >> >>> So, if that's really what you want, go and find a old K&R compiler or its >>> source. >> >> GCC still has a separate executable for preprocessing! >> >> The driver gcc or g++ calls cpp, cc1 or cc1plus, as and ld. > > Options.html#Preprocessor-Options> > "If you use the -E option, nothing is done except preprocessing. Some > of these options make sense only together with -E because they cause > the preprocessor output to be unsuitable for actual compilation." > > Ain't the FM (of "RTFM") a marvel? Amazing what one can learn by > reading the documentation! Is is great reading the FM. In this case the FM (at least not in what you quote) does not cover the topic of discussion - whether it is a monolithic executable or a series of executables. Arne