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<h1 class="settitle" align="center">The GNU C Preprocessor Internals</h1>
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<li><a name="toc-Cpplib_002d_002d_002dthe-GNU-C-Preprocessor" href="#Cpplib_002d_002d_002dthe-GNU-C-Preprocessor">1 Cpplib—the GNU C Preprocessor</a></li>
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<h2 class="chapter">1 Cpplib—the GNU C Preprocessor</h2>
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<p>The GNU C preprocessor is
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implemented as a library, <em>cpplib</em>, so it can be easily shared between
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a stand-alone preprocessor, and a preprocessor integrated with the C,
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C++ and Objective-C front ends. It is also available for use by other
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programs, though this is not recommended as its exposed interface has
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not yet reached a point of reasonable stability.
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<p>The library has been written to be re-entrant, so that it can be used
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to preprocess many files simultaneously if necessary. It has also been
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written with the preprocessing token as the fundamental unit; the
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preprocessor in previous versions of GCC would operate on text strings
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as the fundamental unit.
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<p>This brief manual documents the internals of cpplib, and explains some
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of the tricky issues. It is intended that, along with the comments in
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the source code, a reasonably competent C programmer should be able to
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figure out what the code is doing, and why things have been implemented
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the way they have.
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