This article grew out of my journey to revisit C from a systems perspective. Most of my career has been in Notes/Domino, Java, and Drupal, and although I learned C during my university years, I never used it extensively in practice. Lately, my curiosity has pushed me to return to the fundamentals and understand what really happens beneath the surface. This article is for anyone who shares that same curiosity—those who want to peek under the hood and see what truly happens when we hit compile.
This article is the first entry in a learning packet I’m putting together called What Happens to Your C Program When It’s Compiled. We begin with the preprocessing stage—the starting point of the compilation process.
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Understanding the C Compilation Process — Part I: Preprocessing
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