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Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux

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On 7/23/2011 1:24 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:19:19 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> On 7/23/2011 9:19 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
> Fair cop, guv.
>
> I looked at /usr/bin, thought the preprocessor was called cpre so didn't
> find it and glanced through 'man gcc' but didn't find anything describing
> the compiler structure. The fact that the options are subdivided onto
> compilation stages doesn't necessarily say anything about the compiler
> physical structure, and as gcc is fairly big, I assumed....

It is cpp (or gcc-cpp).

Not a very good name - most would assume that cpp=c plus plus.

But then most people would call it via the general compiler driver, so
it does not matter much.

Arne

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Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-21 20:43 -0400
  Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-07-22 12:35 -0700
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-22 13:09 -0700
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 13:35 -0700
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-22 16:53 -0400
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-07-23 13:19 +0000
      Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-23 11:19 -0400
        Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 09:20 -0700
          Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-23 13:33 -0400
            Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 11:43 -0700
              Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 12:14 -0700
                Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-23 19:19 -0400
              Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-23 19:12 -0400
        Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-07-23 17:24 +0000
          Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-23 19:22 -0400
            Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-07-24 10:02 +0000

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