Support specification of external user-defined macros #22
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This PR adds support for external user-defined macros, e.g. those that may come from the compiler command line options when we do
gcc -DFOO=\"bar\"
.Currently, tcpp assumes all macro definitions are a part of the source code text. However, compilers generally allow specifying extra macros from the command line. Moreover, compilers may implicitly define builtin macros, e.g.
__cplusplus
.Therefore, I thought we need a way to provide the tcpp preprocessor with a pre-existing symbol table. It's just as easy as adding a couple of lines of code.
A typical usage for this feature would be a tcpp driver program below. In order to avoid creation of symbols table by hand, we ask tcpp to parse a pretty-printed text of macro definitions. Then this symbols table is retrieved and added back upon constructing the preprocessor for the target source file: