How we manage portability and configuration with the C preprocessor

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 275-284

  Sutton, Andrew ^a   Maletic, Jonathan I ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C++ LIBRARIES; CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT (CVS); CORE SETS; HEADER FILES; IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PRE PROCESSORS; PROGRAM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MACROS; MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 47349088563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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