Hi Anton,
Le 11/07/2011 18:19, Anton Staaf a écrit :
I know that this is throwing more fuel on the fire (for which I am sorry), but I don't follow the argument that this is unportable. As far as I can tell, the # : # syntax is not using any special compiler extensions, it is simply substituted into a (boo) ? # : # expression, thus extracting either the first of second number from the definition of the bit field.
If I am wrong I would be interested to know what about this is not standard pre-processor usage?
For me at least (Wolfgang might have other reasons), the issue is not the use of the pre-processor per se, it is that this "syntax" breaks the '?:' "triadic" operator in pieces, one piece in argument value and one in macro body, and neither piece makes sense from a C standpoint: '5:3' represents no meaningful C entity, and 'X ? y' (without the ':' and third argument of the operator) is not a proper C construct.
IOW, it is syntactic sugaring done at the expense of code readability.
Thanks, Anton
Amicalement,