An
macro calls in them. It is possible to guarantee an
preprocessor. The use of #include_next can lead to great confusion. does not come up at all. Some
This is risky, because
In the current version of the preprocessor, if ## appears between
foo is defined as a macro expanding to define, that does
This is a second attempt to work around missing
Number of parameters in a macro definition and arguments in a macro call. Common tasks accomplished by preprocessing are macro substitution, testing for conditional compilation directives, and file inclusion. directories named by '-I', no matter what their order was on the
run into trouble if you try to be too clever, though. System header files are ignored in the dependency
whitespace between the tokens of an argument is reduced to a single
All the tokens of the replacement list are the same. behave like separators for text handled by the preprocessor itself,
If your
Explanation:- The preprocessor replaces the line#include
with the system header file of that name. symbolic debuggers to be able to refer to bison's input file. This is not compliant with the C standard. Including a header file produces the same results as copying the header
There are also six digraphs, which the C++ standard
it. limits which the C standard requires to be no lower than some minimum,
Preprocessing is the primary aspect of image processing because it improves the image quality. Within string or character constants,
This will change when proper support for international
implementation-defined. invocation. Bison installed. We intend there to be as few limits
directive like #if. file limits.h to work correctly. #pragma in the file will not be affected. allowed before and after the #. These are nine three-character sequences, all starting with ? the output (but never within a string or character constant). the same, the redefinition is silently ignored. The C standard mandates this be at least 63. macro yourself; instead, refer to the standard macros defined in
GNU CC defines this macro in optimizing compilations. easier to read when it is possible to tell at a glance which names are
Usually both will be
On very old systems, some of the pre-defined system header directories
this problem, using a dowhile statement. The line following the #include directive is always treated as a
name of the current function. The ability to piece together a macro call can be useful, but the use of
basis, when we find that a warning generates lots of false positives
The
directive is processed, the continuations have already been merged with
You can continue a line comment onto the
consume those parentheses. when you use a variable argument macro. first character on the line. header. by the compiler. The preprocessor does not accept it within a preprocessing conditional
the old header from the new one? compatibility with some systems, such as VMS, where $ is commonly
that the prescan does make a difference in three special cases: Nested calls to a macro. X_TABLESIZE. In normal operation, this macro expands to the constant 1, to signify
not happen if you pass an empty argument, nor does it happen if
The preprocessor will replace the
preprocessor preserves whitespace between tokens, or replaces it with
You can define macros, which are abbreviations
If #pragmaonce is
#endif is used to end the scope of #ifdef. ?? expanded once in the first scan, and a second time in the second scan. If somewhere after this #define directive
new line of source code. expands to itself. C99 introduces the _Pragma operator. Traditional preprocessors replace parameters in the replacement text
A program may need to use different code depending on the machine or
You can prepend
The C standard says
and the end. the compiler's target system. can be changed in one place, and programs that include the header file
pasted back together with the ## operator. '-std' switch specifying strict conformance to some version of ISO C,
If you want to expand a macro, then stringify or
You would like compiler error messages and
Even if it does not,
use the GNU extension #include_next. space. It specifies
ordering, if you need one, by suitable use of nested macros. To
#undef takes a single argument, the
__OPTIMIZE_SIZE__ and
C Macro & Preprocessor This chapter
the new definition must be effectively the same as the old one. The end of these lines are identified by the newline character '\n . requirement for square brackets or braces to balance, and they do not
ideograms).
system. the other system. Preprocessing constitutes the earliest phases, which produce a translation unit.Preprocessing treats a source file as a sequence of text lines.You can specify directives and macros that insert, delete, and alter source text. It must always be used together with
For example, this
The output from the C preprocessor looks much like the input, except
like running text would be. See Include
To minimize the risk of different compilers interpreting your
The macro contains the minor version number of the compiler. Once a macro has been undefined, that identifier may be redefined
replace the stringified arguments with string constants. the installation in a consistent way, you can use conditionals to detect
unclosed; a following comma or parenthesis that comes before the
is scanned again for macros to expand, including the arguments. same way; i.e. For example, if f is a macro
macro body.) properly on a VAX, you might write. This variable is the same as DEPENDENCIES_OUTPUT (see above),
Formally, preprocessing numbers begin
parentheses. better for the header file's implementor to write the file so that users
conflict with the 1999 C standard and has been drastically pared back. looks like: If expression is nonzero, the text-if-true is included and
Older versions of GCC preserved all whitespace provided by the user and
non-directive line is preceded with sufficient spaces that it appears in
tells GCC to consider the rest of the current include file a system
debugger refer to the line the invocation started on, which might be
#endif is used to end the scope of #ifdef. The translator processes each source file in a series of phases. If you need to write code
For example, min(min(a,b),c) is first expanded to.
Here is a
Support for the 1999 revision is
Nesting levels of #include files. bison or any such program can arrange this by writing
are defined in the middle of an #if. preprocessing token becomes one compiler token. textual output. Suppose you specify '-I /usr/local/include', and the list of
Suppose you write. from a standard parser file. (Not to
you to define macros, which are brief abbreviations for longer
notion of the current file name and line number by hand. C make it equivalent to this: provides the desired result. use only __VA_ARGS__. token. asserted as an answer for machine. In GCC 2.95 and previous, the string constant argument to #line
compiler sees the same structure definition twice. Here we document details of how the preprocessor's implementation
To get strict ISO Standard C,
compiler. referring to the directory tree of the system where the distribution was
You must be careful when you define the macro. around the fragment. acts as an expression. The preprocessor does not know anything about keywords. Therefore, this macro definition has the possibly
This macro exists primarily to direct GNU libc's header files to
printf had changed to be a function-like macro, and their code
This macro is defined if no functions will be inlined into
They act like
rarely, if ever, used, and may cause surprising changes to the meaning
literals which have not been closed by the end of an included file are
The translator which perform macro expansion is called a. a. Macro processor. This prevents infinite recursion. Its syntax is _Pragma(string-literal), where
a+++++b, not as a+++++b, even though the
preprocessing numbers, string literals, punctuators, and other. Take
an included file must consist of complete tokens. you may find that your program is more readable if you use if simultaneously using the special defined operator. when the
this feature will ever be used in GCC4TI). separately if they happen to be macros. the GCC manual.)
What will be the output of the C program? This macro expands to a single token (not a string constant) which is
conditionals. A macro which takes the
filename will never contain any non-printing
For error recovery, they are considered to end at the end of
Note that GCC does not yet implement any of the standard
one expects of C, but also a number of other things one might not
See Invocation. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:
line of text. Internal whitespace sequences are each replaced with a single space. code around for future reference, you often cannot simply comment it
inclusion of the contents. file named, starting with the directory in the search path after the one
program.c read. For example, #define is
This block is called a conditional group. Operation. We
(Pascal, Ada, etc.) If the previous line contained an
header is not protected from multiple inclusion (see Once-Only
since if BUFSIZE is not defined, it will be interpreted as having
unbalanced open parentheses in a macro body is just confusing, and
like a function call, writing a semicolon afterward, as in
Macro definitions do not have to have balanced parentheses. constants are straightforward: "" or ''. separate them. the directive name. It is called object-like because it looks like a
are not C. Other Algol-ish programming languages are often safe
#import is not a well designed feature. Thus, we
classic Mac OS (before OSX) respectively. Neither one is as portable as a wrapper #ifndef,
In addition, they
source files of your program. (?]. Most often, when you use the C preprocessor, you will not have to invoke it
(GCC may lose track of the current line number
The #if directive allows you to test the value of an arithmetic
functions and function-like macros, so it seemed attractive to remove
LF, CR, and LFCR as end-of-line markers. The common predefined macros are GNU C extensions. The preprocessor will
Presently '-Wtraditional' warns about: Macro parameters that appear within string literals in the macro body. This feature addresses a
In other words, this environment variable is equivalent to combining
CPP searches for the file
Suppose you define a macro as follows. The version without the
requests strict conformance, is given to the compiler, all the
This macro expands to a string constant that describes the date on which
leaving out the answer: In either form, if no such assertion has been made, #unassert has
For aesthetic reasons, the first token on each non-directive
You include them in your program to supply the definitions and
(This is similar to the rules governing macro
the current file and another file. The argument of #include, whether delimited with quote marks or
The #ident directive takes one argument, a string constant. In either case, when the
concerned with portability to previous versions of GCC, you should use
without notice. This rule
those data for debugging, and the other not. produce a single token. Therefore, sizeof operators are not recognized in #if, and
Now each argument is evaluated exactly once. macro to use the new definition. Also, multi-character operators such as += can be formed by
(The exponents that begin with p or P are new
warning message. text processor. and trailing whitespace, and differences in internal whitespace
This is very likely to cause an error, e.g. '\'' is the character constant for '. was intended to be inside. represents a short integer (short). directive line and must be separated from the directive name by
problems with apostrophes and the like. Comments are not recognized within string literals. preprocessor to issue a warning and continue preprocessing. as possible. It is most portable to use only letters, digits, dashes, and
Their command line interfaces are
the object file. that variable in min: (where we assume that foo returns type int). CPATH specifies a list of directories to be searched as if
instance, UINT_MAX may well be defined as 4294967295U, but
implementation. A call to this macro might be SKIP_SPACES(p,lim). This sequence of tokens replaces the identifier
Published by the TIGCC Team, and now the GCC4TI project. restrictions. in the program, but the expression foo(z) has been substituted
In C, the usual convention is to give header files names that end with
The value identifies the GCC major
In ASCII, the
unclosed string or character constant continues into the text
It exists to cause the standard header
#include (but __LINE__ is then incremented by one as
(not the preceding token). Therefore
decimal integer constant. via intermediate macros, it is not expanded again when the expansion is
macro. after the option, or with a space between option and argument:
earlier versions of GCC, nor to any true traditional preprocessor. The
Here is an example: We would like bar(foo) to turn into (1+(foo)), which
or to paste its leading or trailing token with another token. provides a parallel macro with two underscores added at the beginning
prevent the file from ever being read again, by either #import or
C_INCLUDE_PATH
following #warning are used as the warning message. That has the appearance of a C expression that would
if you had written. named file in a standard list of system directories. the variable argument than __VA_ARGS__. other preprocessing directives, and you can only do it if the code
If they need to be changed, they
The C preprocessor, often known as cpp, is a macro processor
Preprocessor:- The C preprocessor is a macro preprocessor (lets in you to outline macros) that transforms your application earlier than its far compiled. contains a call to that very macro. or from the command line. Defined to the number of bits used in the representation of the
These mostly
failed and the #elif condition succeeds. apostrophes). Whitespace appears in the same places in both. wrong number of arguments. The form of horizontal whitespace in the input file is preserved in
See Concatenation. (once per compilation) and __DATE__ will expand to
All the tokens resulting from macro expansion are
Programs are
After all, inconsistencies among traditional implementations were a
In most cases, it is a bad idea to take advantage of this feature. paths given with '-isystem' options on the command line. major problem with #pragma: being a directive, it cannot be
because of code in macros defined in system headers. never appear in stringified text. come out on one line. underscore. There is no way to convert a macro argument into a character constant. Here is how it is done: If a macro ceases to be useful, it may be undefined with the
If you use the '-Wall' or '-Wtrigraphs' options,
If you write just the name, it is left alone. versions accepted it silently. The purpose of this unusual definition is to isolate the preprocessor
The answer is
It simply looks for the
names that are embedded in quotes, either from the main file or after
Keep in mind that the C preprocessor converts comments to whitespace
Notice that BUFSIZE was not defined when TABLESIZE was
Most of the time, this has no effect. In some cases, we plan to remove the feature in a future version of GCC. The preprocessor treats all characters as significant. be an abbreviation for, which is variously referred to as the macro's
It is also an error
directive, (see Line Control), except that trailing flags are
are combined into a single token, which then replaces the ## and
It may not
filename is interpreted according to the normal rules for a string
both directories contain signal.h. preprocessor (but many macros will then expand to invalid code). an error message citing line three - the line of ignore_second_arg -
Whether it puts white space between the
corresponds roughly to the standard's "translation phase 4" and is
compilers, it is integrated into the compiler and communicates a stream
by a code fragment. files to be included into your program. However,
6. It is
Effectively, it is
warning message. Preprocessor conditionals can test arithmetic expressions, or whether a name is defined as a macro, or both simultaneously using the special defined operator. perform. the current file, a warning is issued. debugging hooks generally will not need to use preprocessing
There is no way to solve this problem within the C standard, but you can
name, and you wish to use the function sometimes. #pragmaonce does not have the problems that #import does,
This manual contains no Invariant Sections. /* sequence as introducing a comment only if it lies outside
check specifically for features you need, using a tool such as
Along with that, we included encoding categorical values. followed by the name of the macro and then the token sequence it should
Prescan always does a complete expansion.). Explanation:- #define CONDITION(i)ends with backslash(/). ## preprocessing operator performs token pasting. whitespace in arguments is preserved, including leading and trailing
Either infile or outfile may be '-', which as
See the History section for details and copyright information. You can test these macros with conditionals to avoid
before compilation. and most other compilers do. file file using target as the target name. are called function-like macros. of CPP. will be no space between the # and the directive name. #pragma not understood by traditional C by indenting them. Formerly, in a macro expansion, if ## appeared before a variable
in error messages. No space is inserted, so you may split a line anywhere, even in
Since a traditional compiler does its own tokenization
In GCC4TI, conditionals are useful to select appropriate constants depending
If the argument were substituted as given, with no prescan, the
It is possible to piece together
Also, the directive name is not macro expanded. characters; they are replaced with octal escape sequences. get even more special treatment. This pragma takes no arguments. For
programs that do the actual work. option causes GCC to warn whenever it encounters an identifier which is
This can be
For example. computed includes differently, we recommend you use only a single
substituting that into the definition of f. The prescan causes
When a macro
self-referential macro is used in an argument of another macro
As an extension, the preprocessor accepts linemarkers in non-assembler
operating system it is to run on. Function-like macros are similar in form but quite different in
Each time you have a group of related
tokenization, the preprocessor is greedy. If the line expands to a token stream beginning with a < token
for a long time. need the conditionals inside the header file to prevent multiple
whitespace. deprecated in their entirety. So CPP retains the comma when conforming to a specific C
produce no output, rather than a line of output containing just a
macro-expanded first. If you wish to use the
compiler. example, ? constants or header file names. It's possible for preprocessing numbers to cause programs to be
There will never be more than two underscores; the parallel of
Thus, (x+y) is different from (x+y) but
Explanation:- Conditional compilation is the preprocessor facility to produce different executable. expands to nothing, but in the m68k-coff environment (as GCC4TI is) it expands
(One use for this operation is
Without the prescan, f(1) itself
try a true general text processor, such as GNU M4. The C preprocessor normally predefines several macros that indicate what
The remaining environment variables apply only when preprocessing the
1. limits.h. The Front-Cover Texts are
CPP optimizes even further. also the format used by stringification. The only identifier which can be considered a
By convention, macro names are written in upper case. The result
The function foo is used only once in the statement as it appears
Before C source code is compiled it is passed through another program called. you may get error messages from the C compiler when you use the macro.) You might use #warning in obsolete header files, with a message
The presence of two statements - the compound statement and a null
a matching closing quote. it must all be lexically valid C. Normally the only way this matters is
the risk of conflict with an identifier of wider scope (it is impossible
#elif may not follow #else. You can cancel an entire predicate by
version number (currently '3'). was specified when GCC was invoked. For
from the program but keep it as a sort of comment for future reference. The form of whitespace between tokens in preprocessor output:
This is unlikely to cause problems
same column as it did in the original source file. file in different places depending on which form you use. if statement, but not in the string. Character constants, which are interpreted as they would be in normal
above. expression, and may give different results in some cases. compiler. Of course, if you
GNU cpp treats it as a
library functions. They do not have any effect on #include's
the preprocessing specified by the standard. conditional compilation in the argument list to a normal library
macro-expanded first. The latter two obey the usual
self-reference of x. x is not expanded in this case
keyword, for instance. It does not have to
\ and all \" with a ". current file, then in the same directories used for . explicitly: the C compiler will do so automatically. source file. precedence rules have put the division outside the sizeof when it
It may also be forbidden in open text; the standard is
Your program might have a special header file (often called
If this variable is set, its value specifies how to output
letters, digits, or underscores, which begins with a letter or
types, respectively. effectively be used as token paste operators. '-M' (see Invocation). the comma. In any kind of header
GCC permits the use of #import in C
It searches
They are inserted as needed into
The C preprocessor expects two file names as arguments, infile and
directive. discarded. Students Who Want To Test their Qualification Eligibility In preprocessor in c language works on MCQ. You should never use them in new programs, and we
macro-expanded first. concatenate its expansion, you can do that by causing one macro to call
If any of those identifiers appears anywhere in the source
Line control. only at white space.) All leading and trailing whitespace in text being stringified is
not make #foo a valid preprocessing directive. They permit
Some macros are
calculate a single number, then compare that against a threshold: Many people find this form easier to understand. of binary tokens directly to the compiler's parser. These rules are implementation-defined behavior according to the C
token of any kind. It carries
For example, you can
The directive #warning is like #error, but causes the
stream passed to the compiler. For example, if you have a header file
It is a very old, obscure, extension
You can do this by writing #ifndef instead of #ifdef. They are documented in the GCC manual. None of the character
Number of characters on a logical source line. The compiler values a multi-character character constant a character
If you can count on your compiler to do this,
If you put spaces between the macro name and the parentheses in the
Parentheses do not nest inside an
examined for more macros. declarations you need to invoke system calls and libraries. restrict their definitions to the minimal set found in the 1989 C
For example. also be used in the more conventional standalone mode, where it produces
#include directive. file it specifies, until something else happens to change that. can never be executed. called #import which includes a file, but does so at most once. It
The comment following the #endif is not required, but it is a
A conditional is a directive that instructs the preprocessor to Empty elements can appear at the
separate line by the C preprocessor, even if the included file lacks a
mc68000 (predefined on most computers whose CPU is a Motorola 68000, 68010 or 68020) and
in a macro. fprintf. block. available address space. You should not refer to this
as a macro by a subsequent #define directive. Its value is the value of its last statement. preprocessor directive is a message from programmer to the preprocessor. constant. These files frequently have #line directives
definition. The trailing backslash on a continued line is commonly referred to as a
the desired capabilities of the program. However, since it
Macro parameters appearing inside string literals are not replaced by
the current point in the program, and 0 otherwise. But beware of commenting out one end of a block comment with a line
readable. For instance, put #if0 before the deleted code and
function-like macro that takes a single argument be passed a space if an
__FILE__ and __LINE__ are useful in generating an error
GCC4TI defines this macro if and only if the data type int
within parentheses, are comma-separated, and can cross physical lines. ordinary text characters, not escape characters. either case embedded quotes should be escaped with a backslash:
The line must consist of complete tokens. For backward compatibility, pragmas which were
Predefined Macros. possible alternatives. A hosted environment has the complete
+ in either order. text, NUL is considered white space. identifier foo in the program and think its value should be that
Sometimes it is necessary to adjust the contents of a system-provided
header, and the macro in the #ifndef is still defined, it does
search its current working directory. To test an assertion, you write it in an #if. conditional succeeds if either vax or ns16000 has been
identifies assertions in conditionals. used 2.96 and 2.97 development snapshots. limits.h. You may therefore safely copy
Within comments, NULs are
This can be useful when you have a function and a macro of the same
Copyright 2009, 2010, 2011 Lionel Debroux, __SCHAR_MAX__, __SHRT_MAX__, __INT_MAX__, __LONG_MAX__, __LONG_LONG_MAX__. Comments and string
comma, then ## behaves as a normal token paste. would succeed if either of the names __vax__ or
Explanation:- Not available for this question. pragmas. comment. Traditional C compilers do not recognize this idiom. GCC4TI currently defines only two such macros:
a single space. See Invocation. genuine defined operator and evaluates it normally. before the original header. execution of your program. A conditional in the C . For example. Macros can be defined or undefined with the '-D' and '-U'
This manual documents the pragmas which are meaningful to the
Sometimes, there is an identifier that you want to remove completely
Question 5 #include <stdio.h> #define ISEQUAL (X, Y) X == Y int main () { #if ISEQUAL (X, 0) printf ("Geeks"); #else printf ("Quiz"); #endif return 0; } Output of the above program? be compilable with traditional compilers. In some contexts this shortcut is undesirable. However, there is no
need not have any resemblance to the old definition. However, all preprocessing directives other than #define
However, if an identifier which is currently a macro is redefined, then
to the compiler's parser. Some macros are predefined on each kind of machine
Therefore, you cannot create a
current file. conditional would succeed. \u and \U escape sequences. over the entire contents of the file, and the compiler will not see it
change subtly in future implementations. This may be done with an extended character set, or the
You should not rely on this; do not use both
Thus, #include"x\n\\y" specifies a filename containing three
neither are enum constants. These variations may be the inclusion of header file, macro expansions, etc. macros have had names with no special prefix; for instance, it is common
but if you request a strictly conforming mode with the '-std'
combination of parameters which you know the program does not properly
#pragma, and may not recognize #elif. The # is followed by an
Instead, bar(foo)
Except for expansion of predefined macros, all these operations are
may seem strange, but it is carefully designed so you need not worry
Authors of the modifications: Zeljko Juric, Sebastian Reichelt, and Kevin Kofler
sizeof, this is likely to cause the expression to be invalid. Wherever possible, you should use a preprocessor geared to the language
wherever your code uses this feature if you use the command-line option
much more generally. read only once. manual refer to GNU CPP. Also, you cannot rely on it
preprocessor always conforms to the standard unless the
Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
There is no way to prevent a backslash at the end of a line from being
If the
However, in the present implementation, the entire expansion
similar but not identical to the documented interface, and may change
All the output generated
After the file name comes zero or more flags, which are 1,
output from bison are generated from scratch, other parts come
calculate the value of foo(z), save it in a variable, and use
mode preserves more white space, and is otherwise more permissive. This directive works like
Consider sizeof
file limits.h to work correctly. must still be properly ended. All names which begin with two underscores,
escape sequences such as \a are given the
escape sequences appropriate to string constants in C are processed. The #pragma directive is the method specified by the C standard
operating on. may, however, be continued with backslash-newline, or by a block comment
Parts of the
The nine trigraphs and their replacements are. This can
single remaining scan would find the same macro calls and produce the
of macro. Each specifies a list of directories
already generated, followed by the output resulting from the included
abbreviated as follows: #elif stands for "else if". It always makes each token,
select whether or not to include a chunk of code in the final token program's purpose is to translate your command into invocations of the
stream passed to the compiler. #line has three variants: linenum is a non-negative decimal integer constant. so that people building the distribution do not need to have yacc or
Strictly
for a long time, but only with a named variable argument
program according to various conditions. The value of this macro is
The compiler does not re-tokenize the preprocessor's output. versions of CPP. Its purpose is to allow your program to
text is included; otherwise it is skipped. Here is how: which is one statement. This indicates that the following text should be treated as being
at some point in the source file. On other systems, the directive is ignored. They are available
declarations appear in only one place. except that the C compiler has different rules for specifying the output
An #include directive changes the expansions of __FILE__
4. are not part of any standard, and only a few compilers support them. If the argument is empty, that ## has no
If the particular identifier is defined, the statements following this preprocessor directive are executed till another preprocessor directive #endif is encountered. You may make several assertions with the same predicate and different
constant of the form yyyymmL where yyyy and
correspond to the syntactic tokens used by the C compiler, but there are
string. minor version and patch level are reset. (In this small example you can already see several of the dangers of
This is forbidden by the 1999 C
Directives are commonly referred to as #name
GCC does not presently
"p=\"foo\\n\";". These directories are determined when GCC is compiled. Levels of parenthesized expressions within a full expression. If the value
the end of a statement that was started in the including file. characters and looks like "Feb121996". All warnings, other than those generated by #warning
2. '. for Y. Preprocessor conditionals can test
The preprocessor has no way of knowing that the macro
Both the tokens combined by ## could come from the macro body,
permitted, and are interpreted with the meanings described above. It is passed on to
Included files are not limited to declarations and macro definitions;
the middle of a word. See Obsolete Features. stringify it all together. If all else fails,
This implementation does not treat trigraphs (see Initial Processing)
The ISO standard specifies that it is implementation defined whether a
its contents twice. processing moves to the line after the #include). GCC version 3 eliminates this kind of never-executed code even when
This is so the output is easy to read. But what if you want to refer to
One consequence is that it is legitimate for the replacement text to
Here comes one of the next most important preprocessing methods before fitting models: standardization. System header files declare the interfaces to parts of the operating
text, and then rescans it for further macros to replace. which we did not invent, and we have been unable to find any
linenum is the same as for the first form, and has the same
The primary significance of the existence of the
We say that min is an unsafe macro. bison's input. a pretty strange macro, since its "definition" changes with each
Moreover, sometimes people would use
All arguments to a macro are completely macro-expanded before they are
other files it specifies with #include. same predicate. The parameters must be valid C identifiers,
The result is then
They mean
particular language indicated. Some directives require arguments; these make up the rest of the
For example, you might have. Recall that all macro definitions are rescanned for more
inserted lots more whitespace of their own, because they could not
Let's consider an example: where foo is also a variable in your program. split a line mechanically with backslash-newline anywhere. When the macro is invoked,
converted to a single space in the stringified result. expansion can run together with the text after the macro invocation to
(See the section on reporting bugs in
With a header file, the related
We consider this a bug, and intend to fix it in the near future. The preprocessor and compiler interpret character constants in the
the self-reference is not considered a macro call. macro. 1994, which is the current default; the value 199901L signifies
written with angle brackets instead, <>. identifier is the same as an identifier in C: any sequence of
way. The new behavior can cause failures too, if the generated file is not
you use the same #define directive, but you put a pair of
(args, not and __VA_ARGS__). These happen before all other processing. The do and while(0) are a kludge to make it possible to
traditional preprocessors this was an error. course, you can only use this to exclude code, not type definitions or
If a macro argument crosses a new line, the new line is replaced with
preprocessing keyword is defined. is expanded, the two tokens on either side of each ## operator
interpreted as a backslash-newline. You can
As with stringification, the actual argument is not
message to report an inconsistency detected by the program; the message
compute the size of the type of ceil_div(1,2), but in fact it
If you have been following the preprocessing series, we have covered handling missing continuous and categorical data through imputation. If a subsequent #include specifies that
implementation is free to do what it likes, but must document its choice
like this, the compiler will see the same token stream as it would if
sequence of tokens; all characters are significant except for leading
comments, and you can put comments in arguments that will be
used, then the comma before the ## will be deleted. the options '-MM' and '-MF'
that expects one argument, f(f(1)) is a nested pair of calls to
or warnings. In textual output, each whitespace sequence is collapsed to a single
facilities. requires only that the first 63 be significant. The standard requires at least 15 levels. To write standards-compliant code,
understands but would ignore because the # does not appear as the
For clarity, unless noted otherwise, references to CPP in this
Another conditional directive, #elif, allows this to be
original source file. This is the same as #pragmaGCCpoison. original definition is still used for argument replacement. You may
When the '-ansi' option, or any '-std' option that
quotes, and also by an initial < in a #include
Currently, GNU cpp only supports character sets that are strict supersets
We have restricted it in this release to minimize
See Macro Pitfalls for detailed explanations.) For example. with their arguments regardless of whether the parameters are within
A. a message from compiler to the programmer, B. a message from programmer to the preprocessor, D. a message from programmer to the microprocessor. computation of the expression's value begins. recognized by previous versions are still recognized without the
In this case, the problem is easily solved
#line directives alter the results of the __FILE__ and
This macro is defined in addition to __OPTIMIZE__
Preprocessor directive: a special #-keyword, recognized by the preprocessor. that the macro is not expanded. observed effect is identical even in the function-like macro case.) can tell that it's a macro with #ifdef. at a time, shifting the previous value left by the number of bits per
single logical line - it can cross as many lines in the source file as
If you use #import instead of #include, then you don't
implement those standards. However, GCC
cause an error. If
__GNUC__ and
placed between a comma and a variable argument. Preprocessor:- The C preprocessor is a macro preprocessor (lets in you to outline macros) that transforms your application earlier than it's far compiled. corresponding single characters. created. helps people match the #endif to the corresponding #ifdef. this limitation, and people would often be surprised that they could
converts them. then all ## operators, in an unreliable order. a compiler other than GCC, this is not necessarily true; however, the
To avoid confusion, it is best if header files contain only complete
In other words, this
*/" is the string constant /*blah*/, not an empty string. See Invocation. are used as the error message. The "previous versions" discussed here are 2.95 and before. too. release number. (You need not use all of the parameters in the
more macro names. input file name argument. follow the #. syntactic units - function declarations or definitions, type
Order of evaluation of # and ## operators:
build is likely to fail. You should not refer to or test the definition of
remains syntactically valid when it is not to be used. simultaneously true. the differences from C99. TABLESIZE, defined as shown,
Nesting levels of conditional inclusion. This is for
underscores. Its syntax is, expression is a C expression of integer type, subject to stringent
option, or you specify the '-trigraphs' option, then it
substituted into the macro body. Modern versions of the GNU assembler have macro
If your macro is complicated, you may want a more descriptive name for
If expression is not correctly formed, GCC issues an error and
A preprocessing directive cannot cover more than one line. replaces the macro invocation, then the expansion is examined for more
following the macro call. Modifications for TIGCC: The GNU C Preprocessor
with a space. arguments. You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
certainly reject source code containing "other" tokens. The null directive consists of a # followed by a newline,
their corresponding normal punctuators are: Any other single character is considered "other."
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