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What is the extension of a c program after preprocessing phase?
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Answer 1

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A preprocessed *. i file is an output of the C or C++ preprocessor. It is usually this extension which is characteristic of files created as the preprocessor output. The preprocessor performs primary transformations of the source program text using only lexical analysis.

Answer 2

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It is compiler dependent. Most compilers by default don't generate intermediate pre-processor files.

With gcc, if you add -save-temps option to get the intermediate files, the output of the pre-processor is dumped in a .i file. With -E option (to perform only the pre-processing), without -o to specify the output file, the result is dumped to stdout.