On 29.08.2011 18:55, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Stephan Bergmann < > stephan.bergmann.second...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> By the way, the source code at idlc/source/preproc appears to be copied >> from LCC code (see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCC_(compiler)>) and then >> erroneously decorated with the OOo license header. This needs to be >> addressed. Similarly, the code at soltools/cpp appears to be a second copy >> of that code, with the same memcpy error, but at least without the erroneous >> OOo license headers. >> > > oh the good old preproc code from Horst (i am sure some of you know who > Horst is -> it's an insider joke from the early days and before OOo was > born). > > With the cleanup of this license headers we can try to remove the code in > one place and reuse it. any reason why we build our own preprocessors and don't use the C toolchain preprocessor that is already required to build OOo?