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by ryao 347 days ago
It is part of the C standard. Whether it is part of a separate binary is an implementation choice.
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WalterBright 347 days ago
True on both counts. But they are still separate and distinct languages.
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ryao 347 days ago
C is a composition of what you describe as separate languages. They are both parts of C. That is why we call unpreprocessed code C code.
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