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From: barnettr@snaggle.rtp.dg.com (Richard Barnette)
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Subject: Re: You _CAN_ "stringize" tokens in (some) K&R pre-processors
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Date: 4 Apr 91 00:07:15 GMT
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In article <323@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> jmartin@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (John V. Martinez) writes:
>
>	I seem to recall a thread of discussion a couple of weeks ago
>about how to "stringize" a token using the K&R C preprocessor (ANSI C
>provides the # operator to do this.) Anyway, as I recall, the concensus
>was that it couldn't be done. (At least, no one submitted a method, as 
>far as I know...)
>

    Some preprocessors will accept

#define stringize(A) "A"

GNU C will do this if you say -traditional.  The AT&T unix compilers
tend to do this (but I reckon it depends on your system).
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