Macro help

[d2klein]

Hi there,
i am looking for a macro which replaces a string "string" with its
character initialisation form {'s', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'}. this
should work for strings of different length.
Is there any possibility to do this?
Or is the only solution to write a function which is quite hard since i
need to allocate memory for the char[] and using a functon makes some
problems with memory leaks then.
thanks in advance and greetings

Axel Klein

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

d2*****@gmx.net wrote:

Hi there,
i am looking for a macro which replaces a string "string" with its
character initialisation form {'s', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'}. this

You forgor the null terminator there :-)

Anyway, what purpose would converting a string literal to a character
array initialization form serve for you ?

should work for strings of different length.
Is there any possibility to do this?

Using the preprocessor only, on a C string literal ? no.

Or is the only solution to write a function which is quite hard since i
need to allocate memory for the char[] and using a functon makes some
problems with memory leaks then.

[d2klein]

Nils O. Selåsdal schrieb:

d2*****@gmx.net wrote:

Hi there,
i am looking for a macro which replaces a string "string" with its
character initialisation form {'s', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'}. this

You forgor the null terminator there :-)

Anyway, what purpose would converting a string literal to a character
array initialization form serve for you ?

The caracter array initialization form is used to allocate memory for
the string (it is a wide char array on hp-ux).
After the conversion i call a function to convert the char array to an
SAP-CHAR array (hpux uses 4byte wchar while SAP-CHAR is just 2 byte;
needed to communicate with a SAP system). After that the original char
array should be freed since memory usage would explode if not (every
literal would be in memory twice once as wchar und once as SAP-CHAR).

should work for strings of different length.
Is there any possibility to do this?

Using the preprocessor only, on a C string literal ? no.

bad news :(
Any other idea to do this?

Or is the only solution to write a function which is quite hard since i
need to allocate memory for the char[] and using a functon makes some
problems with memory leaks then.

[Richard]

d2*****@gmx.net writes:

Hi there,
i am looking for a macro which replaces a string "string" with its
character initialisation form {'s', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'}. this
should work for strings of different length.
Is there any possibility to do this?
Or is the only solution to write a function which is quite hard since i
need to allocate memory for the char[] and using a functon makes some
problems with memory leaks then.

Not so much trouble with memory leaks as taking into account the need to
"escape" certain characters which alters the amount of chars needed for the final
destination string. But doable. Try it.

When I say the need to escape, I assume you want it compilable in C.

[d2klein]

Richard schrieb:

d2*****@gmx.net writes:

Hi there,
i am looking for a macro which replaces a string "string" with its
character initialisation form {'s', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'}. this
should work for strings of different length.
Is there any possibility to do this?
Or is the only solution to write a function which is quite hard since i
need to allocate memory for the char[] and using a functon makes some
problems with memory leaks then.

Not so much trouble with memory leaks as taking into account the need to
"escape" certain characters which alters the amount of chars needed for the final
destination string. But doable. Try it.

I got around 5000 literals to convert. So memory is a quite big issue
isn't it ?

When I say the need to escape, I assume you want it compilable in C.

yeah plain old c nothing more allowed for some reasons

[Eric Sosman]

d2*****@gmx.net wrote On 08/07/06 08:43,:

Nils O. Selåsdal schrieb:

>>d2*****@gmx.net wrote:

>>>Hi there,
i am looking for a macro which replaces a string "string" with its
character initialisation form {'s', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'}. this

You forgor the null terminator there :-)

Anyway, what purpose would converting a string literal to a character
array initialization form serve for you ?

The caracter array initialization form is used to allocate memory for
the string (it is a wide char array on hp-ux).

Why not write

wchar_t string[] = L"string";

If the "string" part is an ordinary string literal (not a wide
string literal), generated by macro expansion or something, you
can convert to wide by concatenating with an empty wide literal:

wchar_t string[] = L"" "string";

After the conversion i call a function to convert the char array to an
SAP-CHAR array (hpux uses 4byte wchar while SAP-CHAR is just 2 byte;
needed to communicate with a SAP system). After that the original char
array should be freed since memory usage would explode if not (every
literal would be in memory twice once as wchar und once as SAP-CHAR).

Freeing the original character array will accomplish little.
The only way you can free() it is if you allocated it dynamically
with malloc() and friends. If you allocate it dynamically you
cannot use an initializer, so you will need to copy the initial
contents from somewhere else. You can then free the array, but
the "somewhere else" cannot be free()d and will still occupy
space.

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Er*********@sun.com

[Richard]

d2*****@gmx.net writes:

Richard schrieb:

>d2*****@gmx.net writes:

Hi there,
i am looking for a macro which replaces a string "string" with its
character initialisation form {'s', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g'}. this
should work for strings of different length.
Is there any possibility to do this?
Or is the only solution to write a function which is quite hard since i
need to allocate memory for the char[] and using a functon makes some
problems with memory leaks then.

Not so much trouble with memory leaks as taking into account the need to
"escape" certain characters which alters the amount of chars needed for the final
destination string. But doable. Try it.

I got around 5000 literals to convert. So memory is a quite big issue
isn't it ?

Depends. If you have a machine made in the last 15 years I would say no
:)

The max length of your single string will strlen(s)*5+2. I think thats
right : work it out.

5000 literals would be about a quarter of a megabyte I suppose. Not
much. Why do you suppose that is an issue?

>

>When I say the need to escape, I assume you want it compilable in C.

yeah plain old c nothing more allowed for some reasons

[Eric Sosman]

d2*****@gmx.net wrote On 08/07/06 09:21,:

>
I got around 5000 literals to convert. So memory is a quite big issue
isn't it ?

Is it?

How long are these literals? 100 characters each (a couple
lines of source)? That's 500000 characters. At four bytes per
wchar_t (your system's value), that's two megabytes. Plus two
more bytes when each is converted to an SAP-CHAR (as you described
elsethread), which is another megabyte. There was a time when
three megabytes was A Lot Of Memory, and there are circumstances
when it still is -- but you say your program runs under HP-UX,
which sort of suggests it's not running in a cell phone or a
Palm Pilot or a toaster oven or something.

Why bend your program all out of shape to save something
less than three megabytes? (Or more likely, as I've explained
elsethread, to fail to save it?)

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Er*********@sun.com