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13. The Preprocessor and Debugging

German Gonzalez-Morris¹   and Ivor Horton²

(1)

Santiago, Chile

(2)

STRATFORD UPON AVON, UK

 

In this chapter, you’ll delve deeper into the capabilities of the preprocessor, and I’ll explain how you can use it to help find bugs in your code. You’ll also explore some library functions that complement some of the standard capabilities of the preprocessor.

In this chapter, you’ll learn

• More about the preprocessor and its operation

• How to write preprocessor macros

• What standard preprocessor macros are available

• What logical preprocessor directives are and ...