I wrote the following macro in C language：
#define STR(x) #x
I expect the following call to produce the result "11"：
STR(5+6)
But the actual result it produces is "5+6"
How can I write macros to achieve the results I want? Is it possible to implement it in C or C++ language?
Thank you everyone!
>Solution :
Macros are text replacements done by the C Preprocessor; a tool that runs over your code before the compiler itself ever sees it, and consequently, before any compile-time constant expressions (such as 5+6) are evaluated. The preprocessor can do some arithmetic and comparisons to implement conditional compilation via the #if / #elif / #else directives, but no evaluation is performed in macro expansions outside of such conditional expressions (Thanks to @interjay for pointing this out).
Most importantly, the preprocessor has no notion of the language you’re writing in. It doesn’t know any of the syntax or semantics of either C or C++.
This is the main reason why in the C++ world, macros are generally considered "evil" (read: should be avoided unless absolutely necessary).
Note that the result you want here, parsing a compile-time-evaluated number into a compile-time-evaluated string, cannot be generally achieved even in the most recent C++ standard revision. constexpr strings do exist, but they do not survive long: See Is it possible to use std::string in a constant expression?
Bottom line: Can’t be done, you have to do it at runtime.