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Subject: Re: need cpp macros to concatenate names
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Date: Tue, 5-May-87 12:11:50 EDT
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Summary: use a comment ?

In article <634@calma.UUCP>, clark@calma.UUCP (Al Clark) writes:
> 
> Has anyone had any success using a macro to concatenate two words; eg:
> concat(one, word)  to generate the the single word 'oneword', as in the
> following code segment.
> 
> #define prefix my
> 
> #define concat(x,y) x\
> y
> 
> main()
> {
> 	long *concat(prefix,file);
> }

Have you tried using a null comment ?  It works OK on the
Sun compiler e.g.

	#define concat(x,y)	x/**/y

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