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Name

cpp - The C Preprocessor

Synopsis

cpp [-Dmacro[=defn]...] [-Umacro]
[-Idir...] [-iquotedir...]
[-Wwarn...]
[-M|-MM] [-MG] [-MF filename]
[-MP] [-MQ target...]
[-MT target...]
[-P] [-fno-working-directory]
[-x language] [-std=standard]
infile outfile

Only the most useful options are listed here; see below for
the remainder.

Description




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NAME
     cpp - The C Preprocessor

SYNOPSIS
     cpp [-Dmacro[=defn]...] [-Umacro]
         [-Idir...] [-iquotedir...]
         [-Wwarn...]
         [-M|-MM] [-MG] [-MF filename]
         [-MP] [-MQ target...]
         [-MT target...]
         [-P] [-fno-working-directory]
         [-x language] [-std=standard]
         infile outfile

     Only the most useful options are listed here; see below for
     the remainder.

DESCRIPTION
     The C preprocessor, often known as cpp, is a macro processor
     that is used automatically by the C compiler to transform
     your program before compilation.  It is called a macro
     processor because it allows you to define macros, which are
     brief abbreviations for longer constructs.

     The C preprocessor is intended to be used only with C, C++,
     and Objective-C source code.  In the past, it has been
     abused as a general text processor.  It will choke on input
     which does not obey C's lexical rules.  For example,
     apostrophes will be interpreted as the beginning of
     character constants, and cause errors.  Also, you cannot
     rely on it preserving characteristics of the input which are
     not significant to C-family languages.  If a Makefile is
     preprocessed, all the hard tabs will be removed, and the
     Makefile will not work.

     Having said that, you can often get away with using cpp on
     things which are not C.  Other Algol-ish programming
     languages are often safe (Pascal, Ada, etc.) So is assembly,
     with caution.  -traditional-cpp mode preserves more white
     space, and is otherwise more permissive.  Many of the
     problems can be avoided by writing C or C++ style comments
     instead of native language comments, and keeping macros
     simple.

     Wherever possible, you should use a preprocessor geared to
     the language you are writing in.  Modern versions of the GNU
     assembler have macro facilities.  Most high level
     programming languages have their own conditional compilation
     and inclusion mechanism.  If all else fails, try a true
     general text processor, such as GNU M4.





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     C preprocessors vary in some details.  This manual discusses
     the GNU C preprocessor, which provides a small superset of
     the features of ISO Standard C.  In its default mode, the
     GNU C preprocessor does not do a few things required by the
     standard.  These are features which are rarely, if ever,
     used, and may cause surprising changes to the meaning of a
     program which does not expect them.  To get strict ISO
     Standard C, you should use the -std=c90, -std=c99 or
     -std=c11 options, depending on which version of the standard
     you want.  To get all the mandatory diagnostics, you must
     also use -pedantic.

     This manual describes the behavior of the ISO preprocessor.
     To minimize gratuitous differences, where the ISO
     preprocessor's behavior does not conflict with traditional
     semantics, the traditional preprocessor should behave the
     same way.  The various differences that do exist are
     detailed in the section Traditional Mode.

     For clarity, unless noted otherwise, references to CPP in
     this manual refer to GNU CPP.

OPTIONS
     The C preprocessor expects two file names as arguments,
     infile and outfile.  The preprocessor reads infile together
     with any other files it specifies with #include.  All the
     output generated by the combined input files is written in
     outfile.

     Either infile or outfile may be -, which as infile means to
     read from standard input and as outfile means to write to
     standard output.  Also, if either file is omitted, it means
     the same as if - had been specified for that file.

     Unless otherwise noted, or the option ends in =, all options
     which take an argument may have that argument appear either
     immediately after the option, or with a space between option
     and argument: -Ifoo and -I foo have the same effect.

     Many options have multi-letter names; therefore multiple
     single-letter options may not be grouped: -dM is very
     different from -d -M.

     -D name
         Predefine name as a macro, with definition 1.

     -D name=definition
         The contents of definition are tokenized and processed
         as if they appeared during translation phase three in a
         #define directive.  In particular, the definition will
         be truncated by embedded newline characters.




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         If you are invoking the preprocessor from a shell or
         shell-like program you may need to use the shell's
         quoting syntax to protect characters such as spaces that
         have a meaning in the shell syntax.

         If you wish to define a function-like macro on the
         command line, write its argument list with surrounding
         parentheses before the equals sign (if any).
         Parentheses are meaningful to most shells, so you will
         need to quote the option.  With sh and csh,
         -D'name(args...)=definition' works.

         -D and -U options are processed in the order they are
         given on the command line.  All -imacros file and
         -include file options are processed after all -D and -U
         options.

     -U name
         Cancel any previous definition of name, either built in
         or provided with a -D option.

     -undef
         Do not predefine any system-specific or GCC-specific
         macros.  The standard predefined macros remain defined.

     -I dir
         Add the directory dir to the list of directories to be
         searched for header files.

         Directories named by -I are searched before the standard
         system include directories.  If the directory dir is a
         standard system include directory, the option is ignored
         to ensure that the default search order for system
         directories and the special treatment of system headers
         are not defeated .  If dir begins with "=", then the "="
         will be replaced by the sysroot prefix; see --sysroot
         and -isysroot.

     -o file
         Write output to file.  This is the same as specifying
         file as the second non-option argument to cpp.  gcc has
         a different interpretation of a second non-option
         argument, so you must use -o to specify the output file.

     -Wall
         Turns on all optional warnings which are desirable for
         normal code.  At present this is -Wcomment, -Wtrigraphs,
         -Wmultichar and a warning about integer promotion
         causing a change of sign in "#if" expressions.  Note
         that many of the preprocessor's warnings are on by
         default and have no options to control them.




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     -Wcomment
     -Wcomments
         Warn whenever a comment-start sequence /* appears in a
         /* comment, or whenever a backslash-newline appears in a
         // comment.  (Both forms have the same effect.)

     -Wtrigraphs
         Most trigraphs in comments cannot affect the meaning of
         the program.  However, a trigraph that would form an
         escaped newline (??/ at the end of a line) can, by
         changing where the comment begins or ends.  Therefore,
         only trigraphs that would form escaped newlines produce
         warnings inside a comment.

         This option is implied by -Wall.  If -Wall is not given,
         this option is still enabled unless trigraphs are
         enabled.  To get trigraph conversion without warnings,
         but get the other -Wall warnings, use -trigraphs -Wall
         -Wno-trigraphs.

     -Wtraditional
         Warn about certain constructs that behave differently in
         traditional and ISO C.  Also warn about ISO C constructs
         that have no traditional C equivalent, and problematic
         constructs which should be avoided.

     -Wundef
         Warn whenever an identifier which is not a macro is
         encountered in an #if directive, outside of defined.
         Such identifiers are replaced with zero.

     -Wunused-macros
         Warn about macros defined in the main file that are
         unused.  A macro is used if it is expanded or tested for
         existence at least once.  The preprocessor will also
         warn if the macro has not been used at the time it is
         redefined or undefined.

         Built-in macros, macros defined on the command line, and
         macros defined in include files are not warned about.

         Note: If a macro is actually used, but only used in
         skipped conditional blocks, then CPP will report it as
         unused.  To avoid the warning in such a case, you might
         improve the scope of the macro's definition by, for
         example, moving it into the first skipped block.
         Alternatively, you could provide a dummy use with
         something like:

                 #if defined the_macro_causing_the_warning
                 #endif




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     -Wendif-labels
         Warn whenever an #else or an #endif are followed by
         text.  This usually happens in code of the form

                 #if FOO
                 ...
                 #else FOO
                 ...
                 #endif FOO

         The second and third "FOO" should be in comments, but
         often are not in older programs.  This warning is on by
         default.

     -Werror
         Make all warnings into hard errors.  Source code which
         triggers warnings will be rejected.

     -Wsystem-headers
         Issue warnings for code in system headers.  These are
         normally unhelpful in finding bugs in your own code,
         therefore suppressed.  If you are responsible for the
         system library, you may want to see them.

     -w  Suppress all warnings, including those which GNU CPP
         issues by default.

     -pedantic
         Issue all the mandatory diagnostics listed in the C
         standard.  Some of them are left out by default, since
         they trigger frequently on harmless code.

     -pedantic-errors
         Issue all the mandatory diagnostics, and make all
         mandatory diagnostics into errors.  This includes
         mandatory diagnostics that GCC issues without -pedantic
         but treats as warnings.

     -M  Instead of outputting the result of preprocessing,
         output a rule suitable for make describing the
         dependencies of the main source file.  The preprocessor
         outputs one make rule containing the object file name
         for that source file, a colon, and the names of all the
         included files, including those coming from -include or
         -imacros command line options.

         Unless specified explicitly (with -MT or -MQ), the
         object file name consists of the name of the source file
         with any suffix replaced with object file suffix and
         with any leading directory parts removed.  If there are
         many included files then the rule is split into several
         lines using \-newline.  The rule has no commands.



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         This option does not suppress the preprocessor's debug
         output, such as -dM.  To avoid mixing such debug output
         with the dependency rules you should explicitly specify
         the dependency output file with -MF, or use an
         environment variable like DEPENDENCIES_OUTPUT.  Debug
         output will still be sent to the regular output stream
         as normal.

         Passing -M to the driver implies -E, and suppresses
         warnings with an implicit -w.

     -MM Like -M but do not mention header files that are found
         in system header directories, nor header files that are
         included, directly or indirectly, from such a header.

         This implies that the choice of angle brackets or double
         quotes in an #include directive does not in itself
         determine whether that header will appear in -MM
         dependency output.  This is a slight change in semantics
         from GCC versions 3.0 and earlier.

     -MF file
         When used with -M or -MM, specifies a file to write the
         dependencies to.  If no -MF switch is given the
         preprocessor sends the rules to the same place it would
         have sent preprocessed output.

         When used with the driver options -MD or -MMD, -MF
         overrides the default dependency output file.

     -MG In conjunction with an option such as -M requesting
         dependency generation, -MG assumes missing header files
         are generated files and adds them to the dependency list
         without raising an error.  The dependency filename is
         taken directly from the "#include" directive without
         prepending any path.  -MG also suppresses preprocessed
         output, as a missing header file renders this useless.

         This feature is used in automatic updating of makefiles.

     -MP This option instructs CPP to add a phony target for each
         dependency other than the main file, causing each to
         depend on nothing.  These dummy rules work around errors
         make gives if you remove header files without updating
         the Makefile to match.

         This is typical output:

                 test.o: test.c test.h

                 test.h:




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     -MT target
         Change the target of the rule emitted by dependency
         generation.  By default CPP takes the name of the main
         input file, deletes any directory components and any
         file suffix such as .c, and appends the platform's usual
         object suffix.  The result is the target.

         An -MT option will set the target to be exactly the
         string you specify.  If you want multiple targets, you
         can specify them as a single argument to -MT, or use
         multiple -MT options.

         For example, -MT '$(objpfx)foo.o' might give

                 $(objpfx)foo.o: foo.c

     -MQ target
         Same as -MT, but it quotes any characters which are
         special to Make.  -MQ '$(objpfx)foo.o' gives

                 $$(objpfx)foo.o: foo.c

         The default target is automatically quoted, as if it
         were given with -MQ.

     -MD -MD is equivalent to -M -MF file, except that -E is not
         implied.  The driver determines file based on whether an
         -o option is given.  If it is, the driver uses its
         argument but with a suffix of .d, otherwise it takes the
         name of the input file, removes any directory components
         and suffix, and applies a .d suffix.

         If -MD is used in conjunction with -E, any -o switch is
         understood to specify the dependency output file, but if
         used without -E, each -o is understood to specify a
         target object file.

         Since -E is not implied, -MD can be used to generate a
         dependency output file as a side-effect of the
         compilation process.

     -MMD
         Like -MD except mention only user header files, not
         system header files.

     -x c
     -x c++
     -x objective-c
     -x assembler-with-cpp
         Specify the source language: C, C++, Objective-C, or
         assembly.  This has nothing to do with standards
         conformance or extensions; it merely selects which base



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         syntax to expect.  If you give none of these options,
         cpp will deduce the language from the extension of the
         source file: .c, .cc, .m, or .S.  Some other common
         extensions for C++ and assembly are also recognized.  If
         cpp does not recognize the extension, it will treat the
         file as C; this is the most generic mode.

         Note: Previous versions of cpp accepted a -lang option
         which selected both the language and the standards
         conformance level.  This option has been removed,
         because it conflicts with the -l option.

     -std=standard
     -ansi
         Specify the standard to which the code should conform.
         Currently CPP knows about C and C++ standards; others
         may be added in the future.

         standard may be one of:

         "c90"
         "c89"
         "iso9899:1990"
             The ISO C standard from 1990.  c90 is the customary
             shorthand for this version of the standard.

             The -ansi option is equivalent to -std=c90.

         "iso9899:199409"
             The 1990 C standard, as amended in 1994.

         "iso9899:1999"
         "c99"
         "iso9899:199x"
         "c9x"
             The revised ISO C standard, published in December
             1999.  Before publication, this was known as C9X.

         "iso9899:2011"
         "c11"
         "c1x"
             The revised ISO C standard, published in December
             2011.  Before publication, this was known as C1X.

         "gnu90"
         "gnu89"
             The 1990 C standard plus GNU extensions.  This is
             the default.

         "gnu99"
         "gnu9x"
             The 1999 C standard plus GNU extensions.



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         "gnu11"
         "gnu1x"
             The 2011 C standard plus GNU extensions.

         "c++98"
             The 1998 ISO C++ standard plus amendments.

         "gnu++98"
             The same as -std=c++98 plus GNU extensions.  This is
             the default for C++ code.

     -I- Split the include path.  Any directories specified with
         -I options before -I- are searched only for headers
         requested with "#include "file""; they are not searched
         for "#include <file>".  If additional directories are
         specified with -I options after the -I-, those
         directories are searched for all #include directives.

         In addition, -I- inhibits the use of the directory of
         the current file directory as the first search directory
         for "#include "file"".

         This option has been deprecated.

     -nostdinc
         Do not search the standard system directories for header
         files.  Only the directories you have specified with -I
         options (and the directory of the current file, if
         appropriate) are searched.

     -nostdinc++
         Do not search for header files in the C++-specific
         standard directories, but do still search the other
         standard directories.  (This option is used when
         building the C++ library.)

     -include file
         Process file as if "#include "file"" appeared as the
         first line of the primary source file.  However, the
         first directory searched for file is the preprocessor's
         working directory instead of the directory containing
         the main source file.  If not found there, it is
         searched for in the remainder of the "#include "...""
         search chain as normal.

         If multiple -include options are given, the files are
         included in the order they appear on the command line.

     -imacros file
         Exactly like -include, except that any output produced
         by scanning file is thrown away.  Macros it defines
         remain defined.  This allows you to acquire all the



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         macros from a header without also processing its
         declarations.

         All files specified by -imacros are processed before all
         files specified by -include.

     -idirafter dir
         Search dir for header files, but do it after all
         directories specified with -I and the standard system
         directories have been exhausted.  dir is treated as a
         system include directory.  If dir begins with "=", then
         the "=" will be replaced by the sysroot prefix; see
         --sysroot and -isysroot.

     -iprefix prefix
         Specify prefix as the prefix for subsequent -iwithprefix
         options.  If the prefix represents a directory, you
         should include the final /.

     -iwithprefix dir
     -iwithprefixbefore dir
         Append dir to the prefix specified previously with
         -iprefix, and add the resulting directory to the include
         search path.  -iwithprefixbefore puts it in the same
         place -I would; -iwithprefix puts it where -idirafter
         would.

     -isysroot dir
         This option is like the --sysroot option, but applies
         only to header files (except for Darwin targets, where
         it applies to both header files and libraries).  See the
         --sysroot option for more information.

     -imultilib dir
         Use dir as a subdirectory of the directory containing
         target-specific C++ headers.

     -isystem dir
         Search dir for header files, after all directories
         specified by -I but before the standard system
         directories.  Mark it as a system directory, so that it
         gets the same special treatment as is applied to the
         standard system directories.

         If dir begins with "=", then the "=" will be replaced by
         the sysroot prefix; see --sysroot and -isysroot.

     -iquote dir
         Search dir only for header files requested with
         "#include "file""; they are not searched for
         "#include <file>", before all directories specified by
         -I and before the standard system directories.



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         If dir begins with "=", then the "=" will be replaced by
         the sysroot prefix; see --sysroot and -isysroot.

     -fdirectives-only
         When preprocessing, handle directives, but do not expand
         macros.

         The option's behavior depends on the -E and
         -fpreprocessed options.

         With -E, preprocessing is limited to the handling of
         directives such as "#define", "#ifdef", and "#error".
         Other preprocessor operations, such as macro expansion
         and trigraph conversion are not performed.  In addition,
         the -dD option is implicitly enabled.

         With -fpreprocessed, predefinition of command line and
         most builtin macros is disabled.  Macros such as
         "__LINE__", which are contextually dependent, are
         handled normally.  This enables compilation of files
         previously preprocessed with "-E -fdirectives-only".

         With both -E and -fpreprocessed, the rules for
         -fpreprocessed take precedence.  This enables full
         preprocessing of files previously preprocessed with "-E
         -fdirectives-only".

     -fdollars-in-identifiers
         Accept $ in identifiers.

     -fextended-identifiers
         Accept universal character names in identifiers.  This
         option is experimental; in a future version of GCC, it
         will be enabled by default for C99 and C++.

     -fno-canonical-system-headers
         When preprocessing, do not shorten system header paths
         with canonicalization.

     -fpreprocessed
         Indicate to the preprocessor that the input file has
         already been preprocessed.  This suppresses things like
         macro expansion, trigraph conversion, escaped newline
         splicing, and processing of most directives.  The
         preprocessor still recognizes and removes comments, so
         that you can pass a file preprocessed with -C to the
         compiler without problems.  In this mode the integrated
         preprocessor is little more than a tokenizer for the
         front ends.

         -fpreprocessed is implicit if the input file has one of
         the extensions .i, .ii or .mi.  These are the extensions



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         that GCC uses for preprocessed files created by
         -save-temps.

     -ftabstop=width
         Set the distance between tab stops.  This helps the
         preprocessor report correct column numbers in warnings
         or errors, even if tabs appear on the line.  If the
         value is less than 1 or greater than 100, the option is
         ignored.  The default is 8.

     -fdebug-cpp
         This option is only useful for debugging GCC.  When used
         with -E, dumps debugging information about location
         maps.  Every token in the output is preceded by the dump
         of the map its location belongs to.  The dump of the map
         holding the location of a token would be:

                 {"P":F</file/path>;"F":F</includer/path>;"L":<line_num>;"C":<col_num>;"S":<system_header_p>;"M":<map_address>;"E":<macro_expansion_p>,"loc":<location>}

         When used without -E, this option has no effect.

     -ftrack-macro-expansion[=level]
         Track locations of tokens across macro expansions. This
         allows the compiler to emit diagnostic about the current
         macro expansion stack when a compilation error occurs in
         a macro expansion. Using this option makes the
         preprocessor and the compiler consume more memory. The
         level parameter can be used to choose the level of
         precision of token location tracking thus decreasing the
         memory consumption if necessary. Value 0 of level de-
         activates this option just as if no
         -ftrack-macro-expansion was present on the command line.
         Value 1 tracks tokens locations in a degraded mode for
         the sake of minimal memory overhead. In this mode all
         tokens resulting from the expansion of an argument of a
         function-like macro have the same location. Value 2
         tracks tokens locations completely. This value is the
         most memory hungry.  When this option is given no
         argument, the default parameter value is 2.

         Note that -ftrack-macro-expansion=2 is activated by
         default.

     -fexec-charset=charset
         Set the execution character set, used for string and
         character constants.  The default is UTF-8.  charset can
         be any encoding supported by the system's "iconv"
         library routine.

     -fwide-exec-charset=charset
         Set the wide execution character set, used for wide
         string and character constants.  The default is UTF-32



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         or UTF-16, whichever corresponds to the width of
         "wchar_t".  As with -fexec-charset, charset can be any
         encoding supported by the system's "iconv" library
         routine; however, you will have problems with encodings
         that do not fit exactly in "wchar_t".

     -finput-charset=charset
         Set the input character set, used for translation from
         the character set of the input file to the source
         character set used by GCC.  If the locale does not
         specify, or GCC cannot get this information from the
         locale, the default is UTF-8.  This can be overridden by
         either the locale or this command line option.
         Currently the command line option takes precedence if
         there's a conflict.  charset can be any encoding
         supported by the system's "iconv" library routine.

     -fworking-directory
         Enable generation of linemarkers in the preprocessor
         output that will let the compiler know the current
         working directory at the time of preprocessing.  When
         this option is enabled, the preprocessor will emit,
         after the initial linemarker, a second linemarker with
         the current working directory followed by two slashes.
         GCC will use this directory, when it's present in the
         preprocessed input, as the directory emitted as the
         current working directory in some debugging information
         formats.  This option is implicitly enabled if debugging
         information is enabled, but this can be inhibited with
         the negated form -fno-working-directory.  If the -P flag
         is present in the command line, this option has no
         effect, since no "#line" directives are emitted
         whatsoever.

     -fno-show-column
         Do not print column numbers in diagnostics.  This may be
         necessary if diagnostics are being scanned by a program
         that does not understand the column numbers, such as
         dejagnu.

     -A predicate=answer
         Make an assertion with the predicate predicate and
         answer answer.  This form is preferred to the older form
         -A predicate(answer), which is still supported, because
         it does not use shell special characters.

     -A -predicate=answer
         Cancel an assertion with the predicate predicate and
         answer answer.

     -dCHARS
         CHARS is a sequence of one or more of the following



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         characters, and must not be preceded by a space.  Other
         characters are interpreted by the compiler proper, or
         reserved for future versions of GCC, and so are silently
         ignored.  If you specify characters whose behavior
         conflicts, the result is undefined.

         M   Instead of the normal output, generate a list of
             #define directives for all the macros defined during
             the execution of the preprocessor, including
             predefined macros.  This gives you a way of finding
             out what is predefined in your version of the
             preprocessor.  Assuming you have no file foo.h, the
             command

                     touch foo.h; cpp -dM foo.h

             will show all the predefined macros.

             If you use -dM without the -E option, -dM is
             interpreted as a synonym for -fdump-rtl-mach.

         D   Like M except in two respects: it does not include
             the predefined macros, and it outputs both the
             #define directives and the result of preprocessing.
             Both kinds of output go to the standard output file.

         N   Like D, but emit only the macro names, not their
             expansions.

         I   Output #include directives in addition to the result
             of preprocessing.

         U   Like D except that only macros that are expanded, or
             whose definedness is tested in preprocessor
             directives, are output; the output is delayed until
             the use or test of the macro; and #undef directives
             are also output for macros tested but undefined at
             the time.

     -P  Inhibit generation of linemarkers in the output from the
         preprocessor.  This might be useful when running the
         preprocessor on something that is not C code, and will
         be sent to a program which might be confused by the
         linemarkers.

     -C  Do not discard comments.  All comments are passed
         through to the output file, except for comments in
         processed directives, which are deleted along with the
         directive.

         You should be prepared for side effects when using -C;
         it causes the preprocessor to treat comments as tokens



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         in their own right.  For example, comments appearing at
         the start of what would be a directive line have the
         effect of turning that line into an ordinary source
         line, since the first token on the line is no longer a
         #.

     -CC Do not discard comments, including during macro
         expansion.  This is like -C, except that comments
         contained within macros are also passed through to the
         output file where the macro is expanded.

         In addition to the side-effects of the -C option, the
         -CC option causes all C++-style comments inside a macro
         to be converted to C-style comments.  This is to prevent
         later use of that macro from inadvertently commenting
         out the remainder of the source line.

         The -CC option is generally used to support lint
         comments.

     -traditional-cpp
         Try to imitate the behavior of old-fashioned C
         preprocessors, as opposed to ISO C preprocessors.

     -trigraphs
         Process trigraph sequences.

     -remap
         Enable special code to work around file systems which
         only permit very short file names, such as MS-DOS.

     --help
     --target-help
         Print text describing all the command line options
         instead of preprocessing anything.

     -v  Verbose mode.  Print out GNU CPP's version number at the
         beginning of execution, and report the final form of the
         include path.

     -H  Print the name of each header file used, in addition to
         other normal activities.  Each name is indented to show
         how deep in the #include stack it is.  Precompiled
         header files are also printed, even if they are found to
         be invalid; an invalid precompiled header file is
         printed with ...x and a valid one with ...! .

     -version
     --version
         Print out GNU CPP's version number.  With one dash,
         proceed to preprocess as normal.  With two dashes, exit
         immediately.



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ENVIRONMENT
     This section describes the environment variables that affect
     how CPP operates.  You can use them to specify directories
     or prefixes to use when searching for include files, or to
     control dependency output.

     Note that you can also specify places to search using
     options such as -I, and control dependency output with
     options like -M.  These take precedence over environment
     variables, which in turn take precedence over the
     configuration of GCC.

     CPATH
     C_INCLUDE_PATH
     CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
     OBJC_INCLUDE_PATH
         Each variable's value is a list of directories separated
         by a special character, much like PATH, in which to look
         for header files.  The special character,
         "PATH_SEPARATOR", is target-dependent and determined at
         GCC build time.  For Microsoft Windows-based targets it
         is a semicolon, and for almost all other targets it is a
         colon.

         CPATH specifies a list of directories to be searched as
         if specified with -I, but after any paths given with -I
         options on the command line.  This environment variable
         is used regardless of which language is being
         preprocessed.

         The remaining environment variables apply only when
         preprocessing the particular language indicated.  Each
         specifies a list of directories to be searched as if
         specified with -isystem, but after any paths given with
         -isystem options on the command line.

         In all these variables, an empty element instructs the
         compiler to search its current working directory.  Empty
         elements can appear at the beginning or end of a path.
         For instance, if the value of CPATH is
         ":/special/include", that has the same effect as
         -I. -I/special/include.

     DEPENDENCIES_OUTPUT
         If this variable is set, its value specifies how to
         output dependencies for Make based on the non-system
         header files processed by the compiler.  System header
         files are ignored in the dependency output.

         The value of DEPENDENCIES_OUTPUT can be just a file
         name, in which case the Make rules are written to that
         file, guessing the target name from the source file



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         name.  Or the value can have the form file target, in
         which case the rules are written to file file using
         target as the target name.

         In other words, this environment variable is equivalent
         to combining the options -MM and -MF, with an optional
         -MT switch too.

     SUNPRO_DEPENDENCIES
         This variable is the same as DEPENDENCIES_OUTPUT (see
         above), except that system header files are not ignored,
         so it implies -M rather than -MM.  However, the
         dependence on the main input file is omitted.


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:

     +---------------+-------------------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE         |
     +---------------+-------------------------------+
     |Availability   | developer/gcc-4/gcc-common-48 |
     +---------------+-------------------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted                   |
     +---------------+-------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
     gpl(7), gfdl(7), fsf-funding(7), gcc(1), as(1), ld(1), and
     the Info entries for cpp, gcc, and binutils.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (c) 1987-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
     License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the
     Free Software Foundation.  A copy of the license is included
     in the man page gfdl(7).  This manual contains no Invariant
     Sections.  The Front-Cover Texts are (a) (see below), and
     the Back-Cover Texts are (b) (see below).

     (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:

          A GNU Manual

     (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:

          You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
          software.  Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
          funds for GNU development.





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NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from
     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc-4.8.2.tar.gz

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://gcc.gnu.org/.















































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