Info for: devel/tradcpp
Package Name | Details | Comment | Description |
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tradcpp-0.5.3 | traditional (K&R-style) C preprocessor | tradcpp is a K&R-style ("traditional") C preprocessor. It was written to support historical uses of the C preprocessor for preprocessing things that aren't C, as the preprocessors that ship with C compilers are increasingly unsuitable for this task and/or don't provide a traditional mode at all. In particular, tradcpp preserves whitespace as much as possible, so it can be used in contexts where whitespace is significant and/or rearranging whitespace causes things to break, such as makefiles. Preprocessing makefiles with cpp is a fairly common property of sufficiently old legacy build systems, including old versions of Emacs and anything that uses imake. |