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Re: missing definition of __STRING macro in standard cygwin headers


Brian Dessent wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
Not to mention the fact that it's incredibly silly to rely on libc
headers to define something as trivial as the stringify operator which
is a standard part of the C language.  Does it also require
__COMMENTBEGIN to be defined as /*?  __BRACEBEGIN as {?  Why not just
use #x in the code in the first place?

Because the stringify operator only works inside a #define?

By the way, I don't see why you can't just build this package like:

./configure CPPFLAGS="-D__STRING=#x" ..rest of configure options..

It wouldn't work.
#define __STRING #x != #define __STRING(x) #x

But I do agree with Eric.

Anyway, if chosen to change the FAAC side of the fence, instead of:

#ifdef __CYGWIN__
#define __STRING ...
#endif

It would be perhaps better to:

#ifndef __STRING
#define __STRING ...
#endif

Cheers,
Pedro Alves



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