Newsgroups: comp.std.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Macro substitution in character literals
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.173255.805@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11323@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <11327@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 17:32:55 GMT

In article <11327@pt.cs.cmu.edu> mbj@natasha.mach.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Jones) writes:
>| How can I write a macro which produces a character literal containing a macro
>| parameter?  I'd like to be able to write something like:
>| 	#define chr(c) 'c'	/* Yes, this is incorrect */
>Oh, I should add that I'd like the result to be potentially usable as a value
>in compile-time initialization expressions...

Can't be done.
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