[fpc-devel] Macro Processing

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Fri May 13 18:21:13 CEST 2011


Marco van de Voort schrieb:

> For large scale and/or specialistic use, simply preprocess the sources
> before compiling.

This doesn't help in any way, when it comes to updates of such code :-(
Eventual error messages refer to the preprocessed code, but corrections
should be applied to the unprocessed file - where? And what about
modifications to the preprocessed file - these are lost after the next
preprocessor run.

Okay, one can take that as an argument against *any* preprocessing, but
this doesn't help anybody who has a valid reason for using an
preprocessor. Look at the many includes in the cpu declarations, created
by external tools...

DoDi




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