August 1999
Beginner to intermediate
912 pages
15h 44m
English
Understand the phases of preprocessing
See why custom macros can simplify your source code
Learn to use the preprocessor operators and directives
See how conditional compilation can make your code more versatile
Understand the problem of international keyboard character sets
Learn to use predefined macros
The preprocessor is a program that processes and manipulates the text of a source file, usually invoked by the compiler as the first step of the compilation process. The process of preprocessing is called translation, and the preprocessor’s job is to break up source file text into tokens. These tokens are used to locate and follow any preprocessor directives ...