C preprocessor conundrum

[Jim Ford]

I have a single C file with the following code:

int f2()
{
/* Blah-blah */
}

int f1()
{
/* Blah-blah */

f2() ;

/* Reblah-blah */
}

Is it possible, by means of the C processor, to arrange things in such a
way that, after preprocessing, the int f1() and int f2() lines will be
replaced by int F1(), int F2(), respectively, whereas the invocation to
f2() from f1() (F1(), after the replacement) will remain unchanged? That
is, after preprocessing we would have

int F2()
{
/* Preprocessed blah-blah */
}

int F1()
{
/* Preprocessed blah-blah */

f2() ;

/* Preprocessed reblah-blah */
}

All the necessary preprocessor directives would have to be in a file to
be included at the top of this one here.

 

[Frank Roland]

I have a single C file with the following code:

int f2()
{
/* Blah-blah */
}

int f1()
{
/* Blah-blah */

f2() ;

/* Reblah-blah */
}

Is it possible, by means of the C processor, to arrange things in such a
way that, after preprocessing, the int f1() and int f2() lines will be
replaced by int F1(), int F2(), respectively, whereas the invocation to
f2() from f1() (F1(), after the replacement) will remain unchanged? That
is, after preprocessing we would have

int F2()
{
/* Preprocessed blah-blah */
}

int F1()
{
/* Preprocessed blah-blah */

f2() ;

/* Preprocessed reblah-blah */
}

All the necessary preprocessor directives would have to be in a file to
be included at the top of this one here.

You can't do that. The reason is that
a) you can not define macros with spaces in it, which would be
necessary to have a int_f1 macro, where _ is space
b) the preprocessor does not know about a context, i.e. he can not tell
wheter a makro f1 is a function declaration or a call to a function in a
definition

To achive this you might be better off with external tools like awk and sed,
if you are under a unix environment (otherwise you might install cygwin), or
you might use a perl script.

Hope it helped.

Kind regards,
Frank Roland

 

[Peter Shaggy Haywood]

Groovy hepcat Frank Roland was jivin' on Sat, 1 Nov 2003 20:33:37
+0100 in comp.lang.c.
Re: C preprocessor conundrum's a cool scene! Dig it!

#define f1 F1
#define f2 F2

#undef f2

You can't do that. The reason is that

Piffle! You can do it, given the right macros, as demonstrated
above.

a) you can not define macros with spaces in it, which would be
necessary to have a int_f1 macro, where _ is space

Nonsense! Macro names may not contain spaces (just like all
identifiers), but macro replacement text may contain spaces. But this
is irrelevant.

b) the preprocessor does not know about a context, i.e. he can not tell
wheter a makro f1 is a function declaration or a call to a function in a
definition

True, but, once again, irrelevant.

To achive this you might be better off with external tools like awk and sed,

Possibly. But he asked for a C answer using the preprocessor.

if you are under a unix environment (otherwise you might install cygwin), or
you might use a perl script.

Those tools exist not only on Unix.

Hope it helped.

I fail to see how telling him what he wanted to do can't be done the
way he wanted to do it would help.

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[Anupam]

Groovy hepcat Frank Roland was jivin' on Sat, 1 Nov 2003 20:33:37
+0100 in comp.lang.c.
Re: C preprocessor conundrum's a cool scene! Dig it!


#define f1 F1
#define f2 F2


#undef f2

I am afraid that your solution doesn't quite fulfil the
requirements of the OP. It does achieve the required result but he had
also said that "all the necessary preprocessor directives would have
to be in a file to be included at the top of this one here". Which
would mean that the #undef would have to be right below the #define
which would defeat the purpose of the macros. I do believe Jim got it
spot on. From the original post, it would seem fairly evident that the
OP was talking about replacing the names only at the function calls.
This would need context sensitivity... thats the context of this
question (Pun intended).

 

[Peter Shaggy Haywood]

Groovy hepcat Anupam was jivin' on 6 Nov 2003 08:42:36 -0800 in
comp.lang.c.
Re: C preprocessor conundrum's a cool scene! Dig it!

I am afraid that your solution doesn't quite fulfil the
requirements of the OP. It does achieve the required result but he had
also said that "all the necessary preprocessor directives would have
to be in a file to be included at the top of this one here". Which

Ah! I missed that bit. My appologies to Frank for, in effect,
poopooing his post (with no offence intended); and to Jim for not
paying more attention to his needs.

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