Talkback for article: 386, August2005
LF Tip: #defines for writing portable C-code
From: BarretJ
[ date: 2005-09-15 ]
why not just do this instead?
echo | cpp -dM
cpp defaults to reading standard input, so you don't really need to create an extra file
From: Senthil
[ date: 2005-09-23 ]
It was helpful.
From: shen yang <shen.yang888(at)gmail.com>
[ date: 2006-01-03 ]
nice going~
From: Marty Leisner <leisner(at)rochester.rr.com>
[ date: 2006-02-02 ]
This approach is more flexible:
#ifdef sun
#define TTY_PORT "/dev/ttya"
#endif
#ifdef linux
#define TTY_PORT "/dev/ttyS0"
#endif
#ifndef TTY_PORT
#error No tty port defined
#endif
static char *port = TTY_PORT;
The advantages are:
You can define the TTY_PORT on the command line (maybe to port to a new system) -- i.e.:
From: Eric R
[ date: 2006-03-08 ]
This one also works
cpp -dM < /dev/null
but the one using echo is shorter.
From: guest
[ date: 2006-04-15 ]
I hope someone would write an article regarding "hell of #defines".
Have a look at "openafs" source codes ;)
best regards.
From: Arun <d.arun321(at)indiatimes.com>
[ date: 2006-05-17 ]
I dont understand why we need to change the timestamp of /tmp/foo.o
From: James
[ date: 2006-07-31 ]
Hi Arun,
"touch" does not modify the timestamp in this case. It just
creates an empty file
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