Macro substitution in character literals

Sean Eric Fagan sef at kithrup.COM
Sat Dec 8 12:42:41 AEST 1990


In article <14683 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>If you're desperate, you might try
>	#define chr(c) #c[0]

Microsoft C 6.0 has a #@ construct, which is like stringizing, only it
yields a character instead of a string.

I know, it's not standard, but it is upwardly compatable with the standard,
and they might try to press for it for the next version of the standard.

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