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Re: Major revision of CPP manual - draft available for comment
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at stanford dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Major revision of CPP manual - draft available for comment
- From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 09:19:42 +0100
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, njs at uclink dot berkeley dot edu, Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Organization: Codesourcery LLC
- References: <20010429154649.B6612@stanford.edu>
Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> I'm revising the CPP manual for GCC 3.0. I've put a draft of the
great!
> revision up at <http://www.stanford.edu/~zackw/cpp-doc/cpp_toc.html>.
> I would appreciate any comments. I'm particularly interested in
Ok, here goes...
3.1, you might like to reinfoce that the expansion happens on replacement,
not on reading the #define by pointing out that
#define TABLESIZE BUFFERSIZE
#define BUFFERSIZE 10
is valid and TABLESIZE will expand to 10
I don't understand the argument in 3.10.6 about rescanning. I know
rescanning is necessary, having worked through it yonks back (when
learning how to stringfy things using one level of indirection).
I cannot now reconstruct that thinking, and 3.10.6 didn't convince me it
was needed.
nathan
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