On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 05:46:21PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 9 November 2012 at 13:52:24 +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > Looks like yet another cpp -traditional abuse. > > Use or abuse? In any case, it's not the only one. In the Good Old > Days people did things like that. So, it seems, does imake, and I'm > sure others will come out of the woodwork. ... > > Clang will most likely never support traditional preprocessing. ... > What we really need is a traditional cpp. That's not difficult: > there's one in 4.3BSD (all 32 kB of source). OpenBSD also had one, > though it's gone now, so presumably that one has a clean license. > Both appear to be from pcc. Should we import it into the tree as, > say, tradcpp? There is also a public domain one in the X11R5 sources. And the well writen http://mcpp.sourceforge.net/ (BSD-style-licensed), with a test suite, etc.. See 'lmcpp-summary-272.pdf' there. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)Received on Tue Nov 13 2012 - 22:24:26 UTC
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