Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <3uuf071k5c0b32cdlv31s7p1u6cjn3t11j@4ax.com> <71ph07l246l93uf4umn5tjgp6dtfgnr4a9@4ax.com> <4e28c7a0$0$308$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1311427170 21621 84.45.235.129 (23 Jul 2011 13:19:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:19:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6446 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. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |