The C preprocessor (CPP) is a text file processor that is used with C, C++ and other programming tools. The preprocessor provides for file inclusion (often...
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In computer science, a preprocessor (or precompiler) is a program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input in another program...
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is a feature of some computer programming languages, especially the C preprocessor, whereby a macro may be declared to accept a varying number of arguments...
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Directive (programming) (redirect from Preprocessor directive)
term command. In C and C++, the language supports a simple macro preprocessor. Source lines that should be handled by the preprocessor, such as #define...
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Supports dynamic memory via standard library functions Includes the C preprocessor to perform macro definition, source code file inclusion, and conditional...
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languages that proposed parallel extensions to ISO C 99: AC, Split-C, and Parallel C preprocessor (PCP). UPC is not a superset of these three languages...
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Pragma once (category C (programming language) headers)
In the C and C++ programming languages, #pragma once is a non-standard but widely supported preprocessor directive designed to cause the current header...
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the C-- language, forming the Cmm dialect which uses the C preprocessor for ergonomics. GHC backends are responsible for further transforming C-- into...
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Winning entries are awarded with a category, such as "Worst Abuse of the C preprocessor" or "Most Erratic Behavior", and then announced on the official IOCCC...
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syntax of succeeding languages, including C++, Java, and C#. C code consists of preprocessor directives, and core-language types, variables and functions;...
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Include directive (redirect from C header)
combined file. Different processors may use different syntax. The C preprocessor (used with C, C++ and in other contexts) defines an include directive as a line...
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during the linking phase. This is because modules are not handled by the C preprocessor during the preprocessing step, but rather directly by the compiler during...
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Include guard (category C (programming language) headers)
problem of double inclusion when dealing with the include directive. The C preprocessor processes inclusion directives like #include "Foo.h" to include "Foo...
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Traditionally (prior to C++20), code inclusion in C++ followed the ways of C, in which code was imported into another file using the preprocessor directive #include...
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the C preprocessor and make. The first version was written by Todd Brunhoff at Tektronix. imake generates makefiles from a template, a set of C preprocessor...
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when where with yield Although C# does not have a separate preprocessor, unlike C and C++ which use the C preprocessor, these directives are processed...
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such as C and some assembly languages have rudimentary macro systems, implemented as preprocessors to the compiler or assembler. C preprocessor macros...
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Translation unit (programming) (category C (programming language))
source code, includes directives for the C preprocessor. A translation unit is the output of the C preprocessor – a source file after it has been preprocessed...
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Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2009-10-11. "The C Preprocessor". GNU.org. Archived from the original on 2021-08-03. Retrieved 2021-01-04...
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checked by preprocessor directives. Add __has_c_attribute allowing the availability of an attribute to be checked by preprocessor directives. (see "C++ compatibility"...
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C++ 2017. For example, generic selections via the _Generic keyword are not supported by the compiler and result in a syntax error. The preprocessor was...
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Digraphs and trigraphs (programming) (redirect from C Trigraph)
trigraphs in C and C++, there are no single-character equivalents to these in J. The C preprocessor (used for C and with slight differences in C++; see below)...
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blogger for Dr. Dobb's Journal. Around 2014, Bright wrote Warp, a fast C/C++ preprocessor written in D, for Facebook. Bengel, Erick (2016-06-30). "Museum of...
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X macro (category C (programming language))
%d\n", #name, name); LIST_OF_VARIABLES #undef X } When run through the C preprocessor, the following code is generated. Line breaks and indentation have been...
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The ISO C specification makes allowance for these keywords as preprocessor macros in the header file iso646.h. For compatibility with C, C++ also provides...
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"libpng" and version "1.2.8". The Cflags entry defines an option that the C preprocessor uses to locate the library's header files – in /usr/local/include/libpng12...
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languages such as the one defined by the C preprocessor (the macro preprocessor for the C, Objective-C and C++ programming languages), a macro returns...
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libavcodec/raw.c Source File". ffmpeg.org. Retrieved June 9, 2019. "The C Preprocessor: Implementation-defined behavior". gcc.gnu.org. "ACPI ID Registry"....
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CFLAGS (category C (programming language))
Similarly, a variable CPPFLAGS exists with switches to be passed to the C or C++ preprocessor. Similarly, FFLAGS enables the addition of switches for a Fortran...
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