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authorghazi <ghazi@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2000-04-17 14:48:13 +0000
committerghazi <ghazi@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2000-04-17 14:48:13 +0000
commit21fcf6749fe413f9a2aec8cdc6d2d988cfa5b2fb (patch)
treea3938b3cae49fd5317ca2dbec58f0e58b206c9c3 /include
parent6cb9024d53a964f8ccdbd1245efee898dae864db (diff)
downloadgcc-21fcf6749fe413f9a2aec8cdc6d2d988cfa5b2fb.tar.gz
* symcat.h: Honor autoconf macro HAVE_STRINGIZE. Add
comments/caveats with regard to traditional C behavior. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@33209 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
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-rw-r--r--include/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--include/symcat.h11
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/ChangeLog b/include/ChangeLog
index e2bf4c15cbe..4be8ffb7c95 100644
--- a/include/ChangeLog
+++ b/include/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-04-17 Kaveh R. Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
+
+ * symcat.h: Honor autoconf macro HAVE_STRINGIZE. Add
+ comments/caveats with regard to traditional C behavior.
+
2000-04-05 Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
* splay-tree.h (splay_tree_remove): Declare.
diff --git a/include/symcat.h b/include/symcat.h
index 3e27162b264..41589d42add 100644
--- a/include/symcat.h
+++ b/include/symcat.h
@@ -19,12 +19,16 @@
#ifndef SYM_CAT_H
#define SYM_CAT_H
-#if defined (__STDC__) || defined (ALMOST_STDC)
+#if defined (__STDC__) || defined (ALMOST_STDC) || defined (HAVE_STRINGIZE)
#define CONCAT2(a,b) a##b
#define CONCAT3(a,b,c) a##b##c
#define CONCAT4(a,b,c,d) a##b##c##d
#define STRINGX(s) #s
#else
+/* Note one should never pass extra whitespace to the CONCATn macros,
+ e.g. CONCAT2(foo, bar) because traditonal C will keep the space between
+ the two labels instead of concatenating them. Instead, make sure to
+ write CONCAT2(foo,bar). */
#define CONCAT2(a,b) a/**/b
#define CONCAT3(a,b,c) a/**/b/**/c
#define CONCAT4(a,b,c,d) a/**/b/**/c/**/d
@@ -35,6 +39,11 @@
#define XCONCAT3(a,b,c) CONCAT3(a,b,c)
#define XCONCAT4(a,b,c,d) CONCAT4(a,b,c,d)
+/* Note the layer of indirection here is typically used to allow
+ stringification of the expansion of macros. I.e. "#define foo
+ bar", "XSTRING(foo)", to yield "bar". Be aware that this only
+ works for __STDC__, not for traditional C which will still resolve
+ to "foo". */
#define XSTRING(s) STRINGX(s)
#endif SYM_CAT_H