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		userbinator on Sept 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: PyCParser, C parser and interpreter in Py... That's fine if you want to compile or interpret the program for a particular set of definitions. That's what this does. No one said anything about your second point.

pfdietz on Sept 14, 2019 [–]

I was pointing out a problem with C parsers. This is not really the tool's fault; it's a problem with the design of C itself. One would not have this problem with, say, Java. I don't much like preprocessors for this reason.

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