Re: lynx-dev removing strings used in CTRACE when configured without

[dickey]

> 
> On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote: 
>  
> > >   One of the solutions may be the following:  
> > >  There is a standalone preprocessor distributed with gcc, it's called 
> > > 'cccp'  
> > > and it does support macros with variable number of args.   
> >  
> > no (I've already been there).  that also is gcc-specific, and changes in 
> > subtle, incompatible ways as gcc evolves. 
>  
>   We can get a snapshot from the latest gcc/egcs version and use it forever,  
> without changing. I have an imression, that it wasn't modified last 4 years.  
> On the other hand, developers of lynx get the reliable and very powerful 
> tool, 
> that is thoroughly tested. IMO macros with varargs are useful not in CTRACE.  

I said incompatible, I meant incompatible - I've been inside the gnu
c preprocessor more than once because newer releases introduce features
that the older one does not understand.  Not something that you can
solve with a snapshot.

>  
> >[...]  
>  
>  Best regards, 
>   -Vlad 


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