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diff --git a/doc/trouble.doc b/doc/trouble.doc index 3a89922..c71e63d 100644 --- a/doc/trouble.doc +++ b/doc/trouble.doc @@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ read \ref unix_problems "this section" first. <li>Doxygen is <em>not</em> a real compiler, it is only a lexical scanner. This means that it can and will not detect errors in your source code. +<li>Doxygen has a build in preprocessor, but this works slightly different than + the C preprocessor. Doxygen assumes a header file is properly guarded against + multiple inclusion, and that each include file is standalone (i.e. it could be placed + at the top of a source file without causing compiler errors). As long as this is + true (and this is a good design practice) you should not encounter problems. <li>Since it is impossible to test all possible code fragments, it is very well possible, that some valid piece of C/C++ code is not handled properly. If you find such a piece, please send it to me, so I can |