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- <h3 class="section">2.3 Search Path</h3>
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- <p>By default, the preprocessor looks for header files included by the quote
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- directories. The exact search directory list depends on the target
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- find the default search directory list for your version of CPP by
- invoking it with the <samp>-v</samp> option. For example,
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