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scatter file

Sukhdeep Singh

what is scatter file? what is its advantage?
Kindly tell, i do not anything about these.

Thanks
Sukhdeep Singh

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  • 0 in reply to Andy Neil

    Remember: the so-called "C Preprocessor" actually knows nothing about the 'C' language or syntax - it is really just a text file processor.

    Not so.

    The preprocessing phases of a C compiler do know quite a but about C syntax. The preprocessor parses character and string literals, integers and float constants, and it knows enough about identifiers and operators to notice that it should macro-expand only one instance of "E2" to 2E0 in the following snippet:

    #define E2 2E0
0xA0E2+1.5E2+MILE2+E2_2+E2+sizeof('E2')+strlen("E2")

    That goes well beyond "just a text file processor".

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  • 0 in reply to Andy Neil

    Remember: the so-called "C Preprocessor" actually knows nothing about the 'C' language or syntax - it is really just a text file processor.

    Not so.

    The preprocessing phases of a C compiler do know quite a but about C syntax. The preprocessor parses character and string literals, integers and float constants, and it knows enough about identifiers and operators to notice that it should macro-expand only one instance of "E2" to 2E0 in the following snippet:

    #define E2 2E0
0xA0E2+1.5E2+MILE2+E2_2+E2+sizeof('E2')+strlen("E2")

    That goes well beyond "just a text file processor".

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