Is gcc meant to only be used to compile FOSS? If that's your agenda, you're right - I don't see how you can use a feature like WPP.
But is that really what gcc aims for? Not to allow people working on close-source software to enjoy it? On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Richard Kenner <ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote: >> What WPP does, is it runs during pre-compilation, and replaces the >> string in each call to a trace macro, with an obfuscated string. > > And why would a writer of Free Software want to do such a thing?