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From: greg@suntan.viewlogic.com (Gregory Larkin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Question about assertion macro
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Date: 29 May 91 15:22:28 GMT
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Hi there,

I would like to construct an assertion macro so that I
can print the exact condition that failed as a string.

Here is the way I call the macro:

ASSERT(foo != NULL, "Unexpected NULL pointer");

And here is how it is currently defined:

#define ASSERT(relation, msg) { if(!(relation)) { \
			      printf("ASSERTION FAILED: File %s Line %d %s\n",\
                                     __FILE__, __LINE__, msg); \
			      exit(FatalError); } }

I would like to expand the macro so that I can print the message as:

ASSERTION FAILED: foo != NULL, File xxxx Line yyyy Unexpected NULL pointer

How can I print the string "foo != NULL" without passing in the test as
a string.  Can I print the test directly as a string somehow?

Thanks for any help,
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