[OT] C parsing, was: Re: [Announce] Alpha release of a Lua debugger

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Dave Dodge wrote:
> Is that a string-literal or a header-name token?  It matches the
> syntax for both.  The only way to know which one you've got is to
> examine the preceding tokens to see if this is part of an #include
> directive, even though preprocessing directives aren't really supposed
> to be dealt with until phase 4.

Really? I am not a compiler expert, far from it, but as a C programmer I 
thought preprocessing phase takes place before anything else. In early 
compilers, it could even be done by a separate processor, IIRC.
I don't contest your knowledge, I just find this surprising.

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