<< 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>