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  57. <span id="Traditional-lexical-analysis-1"></span><h3 class="section">10.1 Traditional lexical analysis</h3>
  58. <p>The traditional preprocessor does not decompose its input into tokens
  59. the same way a standards-conforming preprocessor does. The input is
  60. simply treated as a stream of text with minimal internal form.
  61. </p>
  62. <p>This implementation does not treat trigraphs (see <a href="Initial-processing.html#trigraphs">trigraphs</a>)
  63. specially since they were an invention of the standards committee. It
  64. handles arbitrarily-positioned escaped newlines properly and splices
  65. the lines as you would expect; many traditional preprocessors did not
  66. do this.
  67. </p>
  68. <p>The form of horizontal whitespace in the input file is preserved in
  69. the output. In particular, hard tabs remain hard tabs. This can be
  70. useful if, for example, you are preprocessing a Makefile.
  71. </p>
  72. <p>Traditional CPP only recognizes C-style block comments, and treats the
  73. &lsquo;<samp>/*</samp>&rsquo; sequence as introducing a comment only if it lies outside
  74. quoted text. Quoted text is introduced by the usual single and double
  75. quotes, and also by an initial &lsquo;<samp>&lt;</samp>&rsquo; in a <code>#include</code>
  76. directive.
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  78. <p>Traditionally, comments are completely removed and are not replaced
  79. with a space. Since a traditional compiler does its own tokenization
  80. of the output of the preprocessor, this means that comments can
  81. effectively be used as token paste operators. However, comments
  82. behave like separators for text handled by the preprocessor itself,
  83. since it doesn&rsquo;t re-lex its input. For example, in
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  86. <pre class="example">#if foo/**/bar
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  88. <p>&lsquo;<samp>foo</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>bar</samp>&rsquo; are distinct identifiers and expanded
  89. separately if they happen to be macros. In other words, this
  90. directive is equivalent to
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  100. <p>Generally speaking, in traditional mode an opening quote need not have
  101. a matching closing quote. In particular, a macro may be defined with
  102. replacement text that contains an unmatched quote. Of course, if you
  103. attempt to compile preprocessed output containing an unmatched quote
  104. you will get a syntax error.
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  107. require matching quotes. For example:
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  110. <pre class="example">#define m This macro's fine and has an unmatched quote
  111. &quot;/* This is not a comment. */
  112. /* <span class="roman">This is a comment. The following #include directive
  113. is ill-formed.</span> */
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