Re: compilation error with CC

Victor Bazarov wrote:

> 
>> Anyways, does the standard say anything about the order in which pre-
>> processor works?
> 
> Preprocessor works first, compiler works second.  Or is it not what
> you're asking?

Preprocessing is a phase of translation.

The user is well served by reading 2.1 of the standard.
What we normally ascribe to the preprocessor are typically
the first four steps.  "Compilation" the next few, and
"Linking" last couple.

The fact that many preprocessors leave a human readable intermediate 
before the later translation steps, is purely coincidental.