Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Martin Schulze] > > ln -s /dev/null test.c > > gcc -E -dM test.c > > or just 'echo | gcc -E -dM -' IIRC this doesn't work reliably for all gcc versions, because the guess about the compiler language for unknown file extensions changed over time. Luckily the language can be specified explicitly with -x<lang>. Thiemo