Re: More dev86 changes (0.16.7)

[mjn3@codepoet.org (Manuel Novoa III)]

Hello Robert,

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:18:22PM +0100, Robert de Bath wrote:
> Rather than joining in this discussion I've been adding about a thousand
> lines of new code (and another of old) to dev86. The result is a nice
> shiny new CPP. My problem now is that I've run out of bugs in it and need
> your help to find some more.  ;-)

I'll be happy to give it a try, but it won't be until next week.
I just got a rush contract job that I need to have done by Monday.

> Advantages:
>  The new CPP is fully ansi capable including '#' '##' and '??='.
>  It's also a proper K&R preprocessor if you want.
> 
> My next step will be to rip the old CPP out of bcc completely, hopefully
> making it lots smaller and so small enough to easily fit in an ELKS a.out.
> 
> This version uses the new cpp by default, -e will make it fall back to
> the old one (for the moment).
> 
> With this version __STDC__ is now defined as "1" not "0" as it was before
> because cpp is now fully ansi compliant (crosses fingers).

Excellent!  Looking forward to trying it with my uClibc stuff.

Manuel