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title="NEW - IDL preprocessor ( and possibly other tools ) should have flag to enable/disable use of C preprocessor"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143371">143371</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>IDL preprocessor ( and possibly other tools ) should have flag to enable/disable use of C preprocessor
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>Product</th>
<td>WebKit
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<th>Version</th>
<td>528+ (Nightly build)
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>Enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P2
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<td>Tools / Tests
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>webkit-unassigned@lists.webkit.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>scoul@cisco.com
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<th>CC</th>
<td>achristensen@apple.com
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<pre>Most scripts processed by perl during build involve the invocation of the C preprocessor ( via gcc etc. ) for each script. As per <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - IDL files should not depend on C preprocessor"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=143370">bug #143370</a> this can have a major impact on build times. A proposal is made in #143370 to remove the use of C preprocessor directives.
The next step would be to remove the use of the preprocessor.
In an ideal world, all C directives could be removed from all files, and preprocessor.pm be replaced with a simple perl chomp() in all the tools.
As a first step, I propose adding a command option to replace preprocessor with chomp only for certain cases and gradually enable it, starting post but #143370 with the IDL preprocessor.</pre>
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