A trick c question

[dima_ca]

Say I have a set of defines like this:

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#define THIS_FANCY_DEFINE   1234

and want the program print

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"THIS_FANCY_DEFINE is 1234"

(one line per definition)

this is what I was trying to do:

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# define DESC(a) { "" ##a "", a }
typedef struct {
  const char* name;
  int         value;
} desc;

desc array[] = { DESC(THIS_FANCY_DEFINE) };
int
main()
{
   printf ( "%s: %d\n", array[0].name, aray[0].value );
}

unfortunately this does not compile properly, as the preprocessor replaces ##a with 1234 instead of replacing it with the THIS_FANCY_DEFINE string.

So, basically I need to supress macro expansion in one case. Does anyone know how to do this?

[olg2002]

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# define DESC(a) {  #a, a } 

[dima_ca]

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# define DESC(a) {  #a, a } 

you are the man (or the woman ), thanks!