TCPL/A.12_Preprocessing

A.12 Preprocessing

A preprocessor performs macro substitution, conditional compilation, and inclusion of named files. Lines beginning with #, perhaps preceded by white space, communicate with this preprocessor. The syntax of these lines is independent of the rest of the language; they may appear anywhere and have effect that lasts (independent of scope) until the end of the translation unit. Line boundaries are significant; each line is analyzed individually (bus see Par.A.12.2 for how to adjoin lines). To the preprocessor, a token is any language token, or a character sequence giving a file name as in the #include directive (Par.A.12.4); in addition, any character not otherwise defined is taken as a token. However, the effect of white spaces other than space and horizontal tab is undefined within preprocessor lines.

Preprocessing itself takes place in several logically successive phases that may, in a particular implementation, be condensed.

  1. First, trigraph sequences as described in Par.A.12.1 are replaced by their equivalents. Should the operating system environment require it, newline characters are introduced between the lines of the source file.
  2. Each occurrence of a backslash character \ followed by a newline is deleted, this splicing lines (Par.A.12.2).
  3. The program is split into tokens separated by white-space characters; comments are replaced by a single space. Then preprocessing directives are obeyed, and macros (Pars.A.12.3-A.12.10) are expanded.
  4. Escape sequences in character constants and string literals (Pars. A.2.5.2, A.2.6) are replaced by their equivalents; then adjacent string literals are concatenated.
  5. The result is translated, then linked together with other programs and libraries, by collecting the necessary programs and data, and connecting external functions and object references to their definitions.

TCPL/A.12_Preprocessing (2008-05-22 11:49:41由czk编辑)