[cfe-dev] Premature macro expansion in preprocessor?

[Chandler Carruth]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Andy Gibbs <andyg1001 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday, November 09, 2012 11:48 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I also find it distasteful that the feature tests are
>> treated as normal function-style-macros, as I don't think it is
>> reasonable to use your LP and RP macros above ...
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> Yes, its only use, I think, is in some obfuscated coding contest!
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>> I wonder if it would make more sense to define the feature tests
>> as special tokens in the preprocessor much like defined().
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> Actually, I differ in opinion here.  I think it is useful that they
> are implemented as function-style-macros because this means they
> can be used in contexts outside of #if directives.  defined() is
> limited in its usefulness by this.

I wasn't suggesting we have to give them exactly the same constraints,
more meaning that there is plenty of precedent for representing these
as something more constrained than function style macros.