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Effective C
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Effective C

by Robert C. Seacord
August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 2m
English
No Starch Press
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9PREPROCESSOR

with Aaron Ballma

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The preprocessor is the part of the C compiler that runs at an early phase of compilation and transforms the source code before it’s translated, such as inserting code from one file (typically a header file) into another (typically a source file). The preprocessor also allows you to specify that an identifier should be automatically substituted by a source code segment during macro expansion. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use the preprocessor to include files, define object- and function-like macros, and conditionally include code based on implementation-specific features.

The Compilation Process

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