I’m having a 20yo legacy code (pure C) which defines:
#define X float
before first function and before another function:
#undefine X
#define X double
I’m writing a code which is supposed to work with both definitions (and it’ll be copied into both functions automatically). But it’s impossible to make such code in a few cases. For these cases I need to detect if my X is float or double and use #if #else #endif.
The #if (X == float) is resolved as 0 == 0 and won’t work.
In theory I can grab into legacy code and modify these definition to make my life easier, but I wonder if there is any macro magic which would allow me to workaround this without touching the legacy? Something with conversion X to string may be? Any ideas?
>Solution :
Concatenate with prefix that expands to something you can control.
#define PREFIX_float 0
#define PREFIX_double 1
#define CONCAT(a, b) a##b
#define XCONCAT(a, b) CONCAT(a, b)
#if XCONCAT(PREFIX_, X) == PREFIX_float