Quiz submission record for quiz3-2-2 at Thu Jul  8 10:41:50 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
The C preprocessor is only to make programming easier and more concise by using defines and/or macros. The input language is C and the output language is C, so it doesn't really hold a separate place apart from the compiler, assembler, etc. It would be placed right between C program and compiler.

Your Answer for Question 2:
If the C programmer still could program regularly and have the compiler do the work behind the screen, the impact would be minimal...the program is still programmed normally, just compilation would take a lot longer than it normally would. If compining assembler, linker and compiler changed how code had to be written (such as needing the programmer to take into account the conventions of the assembler and linker) then the impact would be great.


Your unique submission ID is quiz3-2-2-cs61c-eq-1089308510-2572.