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    Red face C preprocessing

    Is preprocessing in C an hardware or software ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by deepakwar View Post
    Is preprocessing in C an hardware or software ?
    Hardware, obviously.

    <Opens his computer, removes his PGX-1000 C PreProcessor PCI Card and shows it to the poster>

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    Quote Originally Posted by brewbuck View Post
    Hardware, obviously.

    <Opens his computer, removes his PGX-1000 C PreProcessor PCI Card and shows it to the poster>

    Sir, can u explain me in detail pls....

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    It's software.
    Just simple text parsing and replacing or inserting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cpjust View Post
    It's software.
    Just simple text parsing and replacing or inserting.
    But of course, software can not be run [speedily at least] without hardware. ;-)

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    Tell me clearly , preprocessing in c is hardware or software

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    You can't operate the software without hardware can you?

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    deepakwar - whenever you report a post to the moderators in an attempt to bump it, I will close your thread.

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