The Preprocessor Index

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This section contains C++Builder preprocessor topics.

The preprocessor is a text processor that performs preliminary operations on C and C++ files before they are passed to the compiler. The C++Builder compiler normally invokes the preprocessor in its first pass to convert the text of a source file as part of the first phase of translation. You can also invoke the preprocessor separately, using the command-line preprocessor CPP32.EXE, to process text without compiling. You can use the preprocessor to insert files, conditionally compile code, apply macro substitutions of code, specify compile-time error messages, and apply machine-specific rules to sections of code.

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