(06-06-2017, 12:43 PM)jkl Wrote: The "GCC one" is not a "C one" though.

Nice catch, yes different compilers might have different way of doing those preprocessing.

(06-06-2017, 12:43 PM)jkl Wrote: C happens to have built-in (sort of) macro processing as of C11 via _Generic.

That's cool, I had no idea this existed.
http://www.robertgamble.net/2012/01/c11-...tions.html
It's still pretty new, none of my libs in `/usr/include` uses them, which is not surprising.

(06-06-2017, 12:43 PM)jkl Wrote: By the way: lexers and macro processors are not necessarily the same thing.

Definitely. Maybe I shouldn't have brought them in the same discussion.

It would've been more appropriate to bring autoconf and makefiles.