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From: ted@ultra.com (Ted Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: character strings, macros, ANSI c, multicharacter chars question
Keywords: string, multicharacter, ebcdic/ascii
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.190431.19748@ultra.com>
Date: 4 Jan 90 19:04:31 GMT
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Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
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I have a macro that needs to turn an argument into a character string.
I notice in IBM/370 C there is a # operator that will do just this.
Is this proper ANSI C?
Here's an example:

    #define PRINTS(a) printf("%s\n", #a);


Also, I would like to create an integer that is full of '+' characters
i.e. on an ASCII machine the four byte integer would be 0x2b2b2b2b.  
Unfortunately the code must run on both ASCII and EBCDIC machines.  
Right now I do the following

    #ifdef ASCII
    #define PLUS 0x2b2b2b2b
    #else /* EBCDIC */
    #define PLUS 0x4e4e4e4e
    #endif /* ASCII */

Is there any portable way to do this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

      Ted Schroeder                   ted@Ultra.com
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