In message 20040221003942.68f288ab.fryman@cc.gatech.edu you wrote:

here's a small patch that permits stringification in an ISO C portable way. eg, you can have

#define FOO xyzabc

and someplace else call

Xstr(FOO)

which will literally be replaced with

"xyzabc"

This is nothing new.

this was very useful in a couple of key places in some other patches and new-platform support.

Where exactly is it needed? I can see zero reference in the existing code.

I will not add dead code just for the fun of it. Rejected.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk