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Re: -E from stdin loses standard include paths?


Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:

|> Forgive me if this is normal behavior, but I just ran into something strange.
|> 
|> This works:
|> 
|>     fenric 69% echo '#include <string>' > p.cc
|>     fenric 70% g++ -E p.cc
|>     [many lines of code on stdout, all good]
|> 
|> This doesn't:
|> 
|>     fenric 71% echo '#include <string>' | g++ -E -
|>     # 1 "<stdin>"
|>     # 1 "<built-in>"
|>     # 1 "<command line>"
|>     # 1 "<stdin>"
|>     <stdin>:1:18: string: No such file or directory
|>     fenric 72%
|> 
|> This strikes me as non-intuitive.

Try -xc++.  Stdin is treated as C source.

Andreas.

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