Preprocessing Directives
The C compiler preprocesses every source file before performing the actual translation. The preprocessor removes comments and replaces macros with their definitions.
Every preprocessing directive appears on a line by itself, beginning
with the
character #
. If
the directive is long, it can be continued on the next line by
inserting a backslash (\
) as the last character
before the line break.
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