Preprocessor (cpp) separate binary

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:45:43 +0100
Artem Shinkarov <artyom.shinkaroff@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, you are right the goals are of course separable but my concern is
> the following. All that I want to implement is a different behaviour
> for handling conditional an macros. So basically all the modifications
> are on the side of cpplib.
> 
> Now when I want to have an interface for that for just giving a file
> to the cpplib I end up with a 40 MB binary (instead of 2 MB) and the
> most of the code will never be used.
> 

A possible solution might be to use something else than GCC as a
preprocessor. For instance, ucpp http://code.google.com/p/ucpp/ claims
to be standard conforming, and is probably much smaller.

And I would tend to believe that hacking GCC to make its preprocessor a
separate & smaller thing is a big work, and might perhaps not easily
interest or motivate enough the rest of the GCC community.

Cheers.
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