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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: What is a constant expression
Message-ID: <8891@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 22:40:41 GMT
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From article <1219@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, by davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr):
> 
...
>   Background: large program, defines ASCII control characters with a
> macro as follows:
> 	#define CNTL(c) ('c' & 037)
> While this work fine with pcc, the ANSI preprocessor doesn't expand it.

How about

#define CNTL(c) ((c) & 037)

Then change all occurances of the form

       CNTL(x)

into

       CNTL('x')

(Use an AWK program to automate things, if there's a bunch of them.)
Ain't that the "right" way to do it?