[LCP]stdio.h reference

[Erik Mouw]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:51:23AM -0800, Santosh.Kawade at eyield.com wrote:
> I have 2 questions  in reference to your answer to the #include  
> 
> >The preprocessor includes the files, expand the macros, 
> > strips comments, and then send the output to the compiler. 
> 
> Does the preprocessor strips the comment or is it the Lexical Analyzer ( first
> phase of compilation) which does that ?

The preprocessor strips comments, pulls in include files and expands
macros. 

> my second question is that you said the compiler compiles the code and passes it
> to assembler. Does the assembler really comes into picture or the compiler
> handles everything and passes the obj code to linker to link into exe or
> library.

The assembler really comes into the picture. Remember this is Unix:
tools do only one thing, but they do it exceptionaly well. Try "gcc -v
-o foo foo.c" to see what the compiler does.


Erik

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