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eager grail Jan 26, 2023, 11:55 PM

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Im taking a class in c programming and noticed this at the top of one of our lectures programs:

#define XSTR(x) #x
#define STR(x) XSTR(x)

sorry if this isnt a lot of info but does anybody have any idea what this does?

pallid vineBOT Jan 26, 2023, 11:55 PM

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chrome breach Jan 26, 2023, 11:55 PM

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eager grail Im taking a class in c programming and noticed this at the top of one of our lec...

stringify

eager grail Jan 26, 2023, 11:56 PM

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what does that mean

chrome breach Jan 26, 2023, 11:56 PM

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16989730/stringification-how-does-it-work

Stack Overflow

Stringification - how does it work?

I know that:

#define foo 4
#define str(s) #s
with str(foo) writes out: "foo", because stringify is executed first of text expansion, but this:

#define xstr(s) str(s)
#define str(s) #s
#defi...

eager grail Jan 26, 2023, 11:58 PM

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oh thankyou

chrome breach Jan 26, 2023, 11:58 PM

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basically string an define

pallid vineBOT Jan 27, 2023, 12:00 AM

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pallid vineBOT Jan 27, 2023, 1:00 PM

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