Re: [boost] [wave) experiences

From: Reece Dunn (msclrhd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-06 15:03:11

Hartmut Kaiser wrote

> > Is there an option to direct the output into *.i files
> > instead of stdout? I currently do it with -o option just that
> > .i file seems to be default for most other C++ preprocessors.
> > Getting slightly bored to type twice.
>
>;-)
>
>The answer is no. But nothing prevents you from changing the wave driver 
>and
>add a -E option (or something similar) which instructs wave to always 
>output
>the preprocessed tokens to a file names *.i. But if this is of general
>interest I can do that as well, it's not terribly difficult to implement in
>the end.

This might be useful to have, especially if/when BBv2 adds preprocessor 
support that allows you to specify a different preprocessor to the compiler 
being used, so you could compile using wave as the PP and VC as the 
compiler.

- Reece