MCPP

<< What is MCPP >>

MCPP is a C/C++ preprocessor with the following features:

1. Implements all of C90, C99 and C++98 features. It has the highest conformance.
2. Accompanies a validation suite to test the C/C++ preprocessors comprehensively. When it is applied to the existing preprocessors, MCPP shows outstanding result.
3. Has a variety of accurate diagnostic messages. This allows examination of most preprocessing problems of source, like potential bugs or portability problems.
4. Has various #pragma directives to output debug information.
5. Supports the various encodings of multi-byte characters for Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea.
6. Highly portable. Supports many compiler systems on UNIX-like systems and Windows. It can replace resident preprocessor of the compiler system. It can also behave independently from any compiler systems. Moreover, it can be built as a subroutine from any other main program, too.
7. Preprocessors of various behavior specifications can be generated from the source.
8. Is an open source software released under BSD-style-license.
9. Full documentations in Japanese and English are attached.

MCPP is probably the best C preprocessor in the world.

MCPP was selected as one of the "Exploratory Software Projects" of the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), Japan, in year 2002 and 2003. With its achievements, the author was evaluated as one of the highest rank programmers.

The sources and documents of MCPP are found at:

http://mcpp.sourceforge.net/

Please read mcpp-summary.pdf for the overview of MCPP and Validation Suite.

Please read INSTALL (INSTALL-jp) for how to install MCPP on your system from the source. Refer to the above web page for installation of the binary packages of MCPP.

All the files except mcpp-summary.pdf are normal text files. In the .tar.gz file, newline of the text files are [LF], and encoding of INSTALL-jp is EUC-JP. In the .zip file, newline of the text files are [CR][LF], and encoding of INSTALL-jp is shift-JIS.

I would like to hear from many C programmers for reviews, comments and the interest to participate in development.

Kiyoshi Matsui kmatsui@t3.rim.or.jp