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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
[...]
>> I believe the description of the preprocessing phases is specifically
>> designed to permit a conforming compiler to use text as the output of
>> the preprocessor.
>
> Sort of.  I think that is true for the _ultimate_ output
> of the preprocessor, but not for intermediate outputs,
> which have to preserve token boundaries without adding
> extra spaces to do so (because of how stringizing has
> to work).

What I referred to as "the output of the preprocessor" was the output of
translation phase 5.  (Phase 6 concatenates string literals; I'm
assuming that's not done by the preprocessor, though it could be.)

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