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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Macro substitution in character literals
Keywords: Macro substitution, C preprocessor
Message-ID: <1990Dec08.014241.435@kithrup.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 90 01:42:41 GMT
References: <11323@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <14683@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <14683@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@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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