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From: kulik@xyzzy.UUCP (Al Kulik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: macros with parameters in MSC 5.0
Message-ID: <628@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 17:25:51 GMT
References: <11879@brl-adm.ARPA> <2631@haddock.ISC.COM> <898@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
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>In article <898@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>  Does this imply that a macro parameter will nolonger be expanded in
>strings too?

That's right. You have to use the '#' operator, e.g.

#define str(s) # s
        .
        .
        .
char *p = str(somestring);

which results in

char *p = "somestring";

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