Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:54:17 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Tuomo A Turunen <tuturune AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
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On 8 Sep 1999, Tuomo A Turunen wrote:

> Is it possible to give constant definitions to compiler as command line
> arguments? Something like this:
> 
> gcc (define OWN_CONSTANT "testing") test.c -o test.exe

This is supported by every C compiler I've seen, and GCC is no 
exception.  You do it like this:

	gcc -DOWN_CONSTANT="testing" test.c -o test.exe

This is described in the GCC docs, btw.