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Re: Proposal

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:08:11PM +0200, Frank Klemm wrote:
> > 
> > Nonsense.  Your filter program can simply sit between the preprocessor
> > and the compiler.
> > 
> This do not work. Preprocessed files are not suitable for distribution.
> 
>     blafasel-KandR.tar.Z
>     blafasel-C89.tar.gz
>     blafasel-C99.tar.bz2
>     blafasel-C_99.tar.bz2
> 
> You write the source in C_99 and you also want to distribute the source as
> C99, so you can also compile the source with other binary only compilers.

You distribute the C_99 version of the code and include the filter
programs which translate it to C99/C89/K+R.  You wire them into your
Makefile according to what your configure script determines are the
features of the compiler being used.

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