[fpc-pascal] Proper preprocessor?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 20/06/18 16:00, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 22:45 +0700, Ryan Joseph wrote:> > On Jun 20, 2018, at 10:20 PM, Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de> wrote:> > > > The spots where resolving single parameter macros is done are pretty easy> > to> > find. Parsing the macro text and replacement will be the hardest part, as> > Michael wrote. A bit of housekeeping for parameter-type lists, etc...> > Easy? I’ve wanted to contribute to the compiler for years but it’s so> daunting finding anything I give up. I’m curious how the parser works so> please show me where the parser does the $defines. Maybe I can figure it out> this time.
> When I looked around it was in
> scanner.passymsym.pas
> Just grep for "macro".
> If there is more or I'm wrong hopefully one of the "compiler guys" will helpout here, please. ;)

Word of caution: IIRC macros only work properly in comments delimited by 
braces {}

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