__i386__ and cpp

[Ronald Wahl]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Jim Wilson wrote:

> 	__i386__ has been dropped from cpp in 1996. It
> 	causes a problem for imake since it calls cpp
> 	directly. It would be nice for egcs 1.0.2 to
> 	define 386 on all x86 platforms.
> [...]
> We could solve these problems by making the cpp program be a shell script
> that calls `gcc -E' instead of making cpp be a link to the cccp program.
> This script could then do other things to make it look more like the /lib/cpp
> command, such as using -traditional, if this is desirable.  This was discussed
> a few months ago, on bug-gcc I think.

I attached a small C program which will do this. I use it for quite some
time without problems.

ron

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