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Re: Deprecate -traditional-cpp?
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at acm dot org>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 14:45:32 +0200
- Subject: Re: Deprecate -traditional-cpp?
- References: <27f8f3cb-693c-0306-138b-dd5bd5ffd995@acm.org> <mvmmufi7wio.fsf@suse.de>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 02:33:35PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Sep 05 2019, Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > Is it time to deprecate traditional preprocessing? It's been 30 years
> > since C89. Are (non-compiler) tools that use it still things?
>
> It's probably still used together with -xassembler-with-cpp.
I think not by default. Generally, traditional preprocessing is used
often for preprocessing of something that isn't actually C/C++, but
something different. imake (guess that is not used anymore), other
Makefile/assembler/etc. preprocessing.
Jakub