Quiz submission record for quiz3-2-2 at Thu Jul  8 10:32:17 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
The purpose of the C preprocessor is to make programs more readable.  It's input is a special language whose commands come after "#" characters.  These statements are ignored by the c compiler.  The pre-processor outputs modified C code before the complier begins work.

Your Answer for Question 2:
All programs would have to be coded into a single file, which is impractical given the size of most programs.  Also if a single program instruction is changed, the entire program would have to be compiled, assembled, and linked again.  With the current model, only the modified portion would need to be compiled and assembled, it would then be linked to the rest of the program.


Your unique submission ID is quiz3-2-2-cs61c-au-1089307937-1852.