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It's for authoring C code, using perl. i.e. you have to know C and know what C code you wanted to generate (or a pattern of C code that you want to generate variations of), and then use Perl to get there instead of typing it all out by hand.
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Re^3: Introducing the C Perl-Powered Pre-Processor
by Danny (Chaplain) on May 14, 2024 at 15:57 UTC
    I see. So like in your example, you might, for example, have thousands of structures with different variations that you want to generate ...
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