Macro expansion in Visual Studio

I was wondering if anyone knew of any tools or plug-ins for Visual Studio that can be used to capture the intermediate text files generated by the C preprocessor to enable a user to see a representation of their source file but with all macros fully expanded.

I know there is an option to force Visual Studio to generate such files but this gives you EVERYTHING (such as every header linked to the file in question, resulting in massive output files) as opposed to what I am looking for (which is basically for all #define statements to be fully expanded in the text).

re: Macro expansion in Visual Studio

Go to your project properties and look under C/C++->Preprocessor.

Select Generate Preprocessed File.

Off you go.

re: Macro expansion in Visual Studio

The preprocessor is responsible for decoding all of the preprocessor directives; that is, the ones that start with #. This includes #define, #if, #include, #pragma, etc.

I don't know anything about Visual Studio, but I would be impressed if it could produce listings based on only a portion of the preprocessor output (#defines but not #includes).

re: Macro expansion in Visual Studio

Yeah, I guess you are right, I was just being somewhat optimistic, oh well, back to trawling through macros I suppose...