Arrays as macro

[Henrik Goldman]

Hello,

Lets say one wants to create an array of unsigned chars which would be
stored and used as a macro.
What syntax options do I have to do this?

E.g. if I have a string I would do:

#define MY_STRING "test"

However I cannot declare {1, 2, 3, 4} without variable names.
If I do

#define MY_ARRAY "\x01\x02\x03\x04"
then sizeof won't report 4 but 5.

Is there anything I'm missing or is it not possible?

Thanks.

-- Henrik

 

[Victor Bazarov]

Lets say one wants to create an array of unsigned chars which would be
stored and used as a macro.
What syntax options do I have to do this?

E.g. if I have a string I would do:

#define MY_STRING "test"

However I cannot declare {1, 2, 3, 4} without variable names.

No, you cannot. It's called a compound initialiser and it is only
allowed in a declaration statements, to initialise an array or
an object of POD type.

If I do

#define MY_ARRAY "\x01\x02\x03\x04"
then sizeof won't report 4 but 5.

Correct. String literals have an extra element - the terminating
null character.

Is there anything I'm missing or is it not possible?

There are no "array literals" in C++ yet. What exactly are you trying
to accomplish?

V