it seems that it is not done by pre-processor. use cpp to see the pre-preocessed output..
Satish Vellanki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In [email protected], Anup Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Saifi, > > >>#include <stdio.h> > >>int main(void) > >>{ > >>printf( "String: %s" "One","Two" "Three" ); > >>return 0; > >>} > > >>My query is - > >>in gcc, who does the string concatenation ? Is it the preprocessor or > >>is it the compiler ? > > In gcc, preprocessor doesn't do this string concatenation. > This is done by compiler. > > The preprocessor that C uses is Lexical preprocessor and not the Syntactic one (used by LISP as far as i know). > > Anup > We can verify that by compiling with -save-temps option and seeing the .i file generated Anoob
