Need help with c macro.

[bob]

Need help with c macro.

Have this call in my c program.

stub.c

SYMBOL(ALPHA) << no, dont want to change this to any other form.
SYMBOL(BETA)

Need a macro to expand each of above to this.

static struct somestruct struct_ALPHA = {"ALPHA"};
static struct somestruct struct_BETA = {"BETA"};
..
..

Cannot go beyond the following.

#define SYMBOL(ARG) \
static struct _CONCAT(struct_,ARG) = {?? what shud be here??};
Any help is appreciable.

Thx Bob.

[Arthur J. O'Dwyer]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, bob wrote:

SYMBOL(ALPHA) << no, dont want to change this to any other form.
SYMBOL(BETA)

Need a macro to expand each of above to this.

static struct somestruct struct_ALPHA = {"ALPHA"};
static struct somestruct struct_BETA = {"BETA"};

Okay, so just copy down what you *want* to happen, and then
replace the ALPHA bits with some dummy identifier, and wrap the
whole thing in a #define:

#define SYMBOL(foo) \
static struct somestruct struct_##foo = { #foo };

That's all.

HTH,
-Arthur

[Martin Dickopp]

fi*************@yahoo.com (bob) writes:

Need help with c macro.

Have this call in my c program.

stub.c

SYMBOL(ALPHA) << no, dont want to change this to any other form.
SYMBOL(BETA)

Need a macro to expand each of above to this.

static struct somestruct struct_ALPHA = {"ALPHA"};
static struct somestruct struct_BETA = {"BETA"};
..
..

Cannot go beyond the following.

#define SYMBOL(ARG) \
static struct _CONCAT(struct_,ARG) = {?? what shud be here??};

#define CONCAT(a,b) a ## b
#define STRINGIFY(a) #a
#define SYMBOL(arg) \
static struct somestruct CONCAT (struct_, arg) = { STRINGIFY (arg) };

If you don't need the argument to SYMBOL expanded in case it is a macro
itself, you can use a slightly simpler macro:

#define SYMBOL(arg) \
static struct somestruct struct_ ## arg = { #arg };

Martin

[Eric Sosman]

bob wrote:

Need help with c macro.

Have this call in my c program.

stub.c

SYMBOL(ALPHA) << no, dont want to change this to any other form.
SYMBOL(BETA)

Need a macro to expand each of above to this.

static struct somestruct struct_ALPHA = {"ALPHA"};
static struct somestruct struct_BETA = {"BETA"};
..
..

Cannot go beyond the following.

#define SYMBOL(ARG) \
static struct _CONCAT(struct_,ARG) = {?? what shud be here??};
#define SYMBOL(x) static struct somestruct CONCAT(struct_,x) = { #x };
#define CONCAT(x,y) x ## y

Note CONCAT instead of _CONCAT; to learn why, see

http://www.oakroadsystems.com/tech/c-predef.htm
Any help is appreciable.

ITYM "appreciated."

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