An empirical analysis of c preprocessor use.

An empirical analysis of c preprocessor use.

This is the first empirical study of the use of the C macro preprocessor, Cpp. To determine how the preprocessor is used in practice, this paper analyzes 26 packages comprising 1.4 million lines of publicly available C code. We determine the incidence of C preprocessor usage-whether in macro definit...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Transactions on software engineering 28, 12 (2002).
Main Author: Ernst, M.D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
C code.
C preprocessor.
C++.
Cpp.
Empirical analysis.
Program analysis tool.
Software engineers.
Tool writers.