#: The Language of the Preprocessor
(the post is automatically translated by AI) Introduction The preprocessor runs before the compilation phase. As a pre-compilation step, it can handle several types of tasks, including conditional compilation (e.g., #if, #ifndef), file inclusion, and macro definitions. In this article, we’ll look at each of these preprocessor features one by one. The Language of the Preprocessor To communicate with the preprocessor, we first need to understand its language. A standard preprocessor directive consists of three parts: ...