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                       ANSI C translation phases
                       =========================

          +-------------------------------------------------+
          | map physical characters to source character set |
          |     replace line terminators with newlines      |
          |           decode trigraph sequences             |
          +-------------------------------------------------+
                                   |
                                   V
               +---------------------------------------+
               | join lines along trailing backslashes |
               +---------------------------------------+
                                   |
                                   V
     +-------------------------------------------------------------+
     | decompose into preprocessing tokens and whitespace/comments |
     |                      strip comments                         |
     |                      retain newlines                        |
     +-------------------------------------------------------------+        
                                   |
                                   V
          +------------------------------------------------+
          | execute preprocessing directives/invoke macros |
          |              process included files            |
          +------------------------------------------------+
                                   |
                                   V
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   | decode escape sequences in character constants/string literals |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
                                   |
                                   V
                +--------------------------------------+
                | concatenate adjacent string literals |
                +--------------------------------------+
                                   |
                                   V
              +------------------------------------------+
              | convert preprocessing tokens to C tokens |
              |       analyze and translate tokens       |
              +------------------------------------------+
                                   |
                                   V
                    +-----------------------------+
                    | resolve external references |
                    |        link libraries       |
                    |      build program image    |
                    +-----------------------------+

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