Concatenating with a compile-time definition in "ANSI" CPP

[Henry Spencer]

In article <470004 at gore.com> jacob at gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>I want to be able to, for example, use -DMta=Sendmail in cc's command line,
>and have that result in "MtaInit()" replaced with "SendmailInit()" in the code.
>Is there a way to do this?

In a word, no.  (Well, not unless you commit vile acts with the obscure
token-concatenation operator, and set up your program to perform said vile
acts on every such identifier.)

You want a general text-manipulation tool like sed, not the C preprocessor.
Try "sed 's/Mta/Sendmail/g' file.proto >file.c".
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