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C language compilers

Preprocessing tokens

A token is the basic lexical unit of the language. All source input must be formed into valid tokens by translation phase seven. Preprocessing tokens (pp-tokens) are a superset of regular tokens. Preprocessing tokens allow the source file to contain non-token character sequences that constitute valid preprocessing tokens during translation. There are four categories of preprocessing tokens:

Preprocessing numbers


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