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Re: New Cpp not right for non-C files
- To: zack at wolery dot cumb dot org
- Subject: Re: New Cpp not right for non-C files
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:06:54 -0400 (EDT)
- CC: anthony at cit dot gu dot edu dot au, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200007270322.NAA25921@kobold.cit.gu.edu.au> <20000726204919.O26565@wolery.cumb.org>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> From: Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:49:19 -0700
>
> Sorry. The preprocessor is designed to work with C, C++, and
> Objective C. We also support using it with assembly language,
> Fortran, Chill, and - under protest! - Makefiles, but those are only
> for backward compatibility with huge established bases of code.
> Arbitrary text is most definitely not supported.
Nevertheless, back-compatibility would be Nice (tm). Perhaps some
non-default command-line switch could be introduced which resurrects
the old behavior, if possible.