Maybe you should try cpp?
/usr/ccs/lib/cpp or man cpp.
It's the old C preprocessor (pre C89, I think).
There is also m4.
Peter.
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 10:24, Vincent Torri wrote:
> Hey,
>
> We have a text file that has a specific format, and which can contain
> C macro. We use then the preprocessor to replace the macros by their
> content.
>
> On opensolaris, the behavior of the preprocessor is different from the
> one from gcc.
>
> Exemple:
>
> The text file has the following content (without [code] and [/code]):
>
> [code]
>
> #define ICON(NAME, FILE, SIZE) \
> group { name: "e/icons/"NAME ; \
> image.image: FILE COMP; \
> }
>
> //Standard Action Icons
> ICON("help-about","logo_black_128.png",64) //
> "enlightenment/about"
>
> [/code]
>
> I name that file test.edc. I call the preprocessor like that:
>
> cc -E -I/export/home/torri/code/edje -o test_cpp.edc test.edc
>
> the result in test_cpp.edc is (without [code] and [/code]):
>
> [code]
>
> # 1 "test.edc"
>
> # 6
>
>
> group { name : "e/icons/" "help-about" ; image . image :
> "logo_black_128.png" COMP ; }
> #ident "acomp: Sun C 5.10 SunOS_i386 2009/06/03"
>
> [/code]
>
> The problem, here, is that the preprocessor is adding space before and
> after the dot:
>
> image . image
>
> which is actually *very* annoying for us (at least on opensolaris :-)
> ).
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) is that behavior normal ?
> 2) if not, is there a way to make the preprocessor not adding those
> spaces ?
>
> thank you
>
> Vincent Torri
>
>
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