Macro substitution in #include directive - include

I would like to use an #include directive with a file name that is passed as an externally defined macro.
E.g.
#include #FILE".h"
where FILE would be defined as the string MyFile (without quotes), resulting in
#include "MyFile.h"
The stringizing operator # cannot be used here as the symbol FILE is not a macro argument. I have tried other approaches, to no avail.
Do you see a solution ?

String literal concatenation happens two translation phases after #include-directives are resolved; your approach cannot work. Instead, try something along the lines of
#define STRINGIZE_(a) #a
#define STRINGIZE(a) STRINGIZE_(a)
#define MYFILE stdio
#include STRINGIZE(MYFILE.h)
int main() {
printf("asdf");
}
Demo.

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kernel code native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath function

In the kernel code, I cannot find the definition of the native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath function, __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath is the same, where are these functions defined? I searched all the kernel code, but in vain
The definition of native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath is in "kernel/locking/qspinlock.c", using a macro to change the name of queued_spin_lock_slowpath to native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath when CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS is defined:
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
#define queued_spin_lock_slowpath native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
#endif
…
void __lockfunc queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
{
The definition of __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath is also in "kernel/locking/qspinlock.c" using the same renaming macro trick with a twist — The "qspinlock.c" file includes itself once more, using a guard macro _GEN_PV_LOCK_SLOWPATH to avoid infinite recursive inclusion:
#if !defined(_GEN_PV_LOCK_SLOWPATH) && defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS)
#define _GEN_PV_LOCK_SLOWPATH
…
#undef queued_spin_lock_slowpath
#define queued_spin_lock_slowpath __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
#include "qspinlock_paravirt.h"
#include "qspinlock.c"
…
#endif

Why including cpp makes different result

l learned "include" keyword are just copy & paste.
But including cpp file makes different compile result.
(gcc6~8 + boost1.69)
// main.cpp
#include <iostream>
// I'll move next code to why.cpp
#include <boost/archive/iterators/base64_from_binary.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/binary_from_base64.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/transform_width.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/insert_linebreaks.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/remove_whitespace.hpp>
void testFunc()
{
using namespace boost::archive::iterators;
typedef transform_width<binary_from_base64<remove_whitespace<std::string::const_iterator>>, 8, 6> ItBinaryT;
std::string input;
std::string output(ItBinaryT(input.begin()), ItBinaryT(input.end()));
}
// -----------------------------
int main()
{
return 0;
}
Above code compiled without warning.
But, I replace some code with include cpp..
// main.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "why.cpp" // <----------
int main()
{
return 0;
}
// why.cpp - just copy&paste
#include <boost/archive/iterators/base64_from_binary.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/binary_from_base64.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/transform_width.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/insert_linebreaks.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/iterators/remove_whitespace.hpp>
void testFunc()
{
using namespace boost::archive::iterators;
typedef transform_width<binary_from_base64<remove_whitespace<std::string::const_iterator>>, 8, 6> ItBinaryT;
std::string input;
std::string output(ItBinaryT(input.begin()), ItBinaryT(input.end()));
}
It makes warning [-Wsubobject-linkage]
~~ has a field ~~ whose type uses the anonymous namespace
~~ has a base ~~ whose type uses the anonymous namespace
Please look at this link : https://wandbox.org/permlink/bw53IK2ZZP5UWMGk
What makes this difference?
Your compiler treats the main CPP file specially under the assumption that things defined in it are very unlikely to have more than one definition and so some tests for possible violation of the One Definition Rule are not done inside that file. Using #include takes you outside that file.
I would suggest just not using -Wsubobject-linkage since its logic is based on a heuristic that is not applicable to your code.

gcc: -Dvar=value not working as expected

I am trying to compile a library that has these lines:
#if AE_OS==AE_WINDOWS
#include windows.h
//stuff
#elif AE_OS==AE_POSIX
//other stuff
#endif
When I use cpp -DAE_OS=AE_POSIX I get
cpp/src/ap.cpp:63:21: fatal error: windows.h: No such file or directory
#include <windows.h>
^
Adding a space after the -D does not work, nor does putting AE_OS=AE_POSIX in single or double quotes, putting only AE_POSIX in single or double quotes, and trying all of these combinations with the quotes escaped.
Putting AE_POSIX in escaped single quotes at least does something different, but it is apparently still not correct:
cpp/src/ap.cpp:59:5: warning: character constant too long for its type [enabled by default]
#if AE_OS==AE_WINDOWS
^
I have also tried -D"AE_OS AE_POSIX" thinking that would be the same as #define "AE_OS AE_POSIX" but apparently it ignores the quotes since it defines AE_OS as 1:
<command-line>:0:16: error: missing binary operator before token "1"
cpp/src/ap.cpp:65:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘AE_OS’
#elif AE_OS==AE_POSIX
What is the correct way to do this?
The preprocessor understands expressions of integer type, not strings.
AE_POSIX and AE_WINDOWS are defined as different integers:
/*
* definitions
*/
#define AE_UNKNOWN 0
#define AE_MSVC 1
#define AE_GNUC 2
#define AE_SUNC 3
#define AE_INTEL 1
#define AE_SPARC 2
#define AE_WINDOWS 1
#define AE_POSIX 2
So for POSIX do this:
cpp -DAE_OS=2

Save list of files in array

I am making a C++ program which should be able to list the files from particular directory and save each file name as a string(which will be processed further for conversion). Do I need array of strings? Which functionality should I use. The number of files is not fixed.
Main thing is I can't enter the names manually. I must accept the names from the list generated.
In this case you want to use a vector:
#include <vector>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
vector<string> file_names;
file_names.push_back("file1.txt");
file_names.push_back("file2.txt");
file_names.push_back("file3.txt");
file_names.push_back("file4.txt");
return 0;
}
Have you thought about using some command line tools to deal with this? Even input redirection will work for this. Example:
./Cpp < echo somedir/*
Where Cpp is the name of your compiled binary, and somedir is the directory you want to read from
Then in your c++ program, you simply use std::cin to read each filename from standard in.
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <iterator> // std::istream_iterator, std::back_inserter
#include <algorithm> //std::copy
#include <iostream> // std::cin
int main()
{
std::vector<string> file_names;
// read the filenames from stdin
std::copy(std::istream_iterator<std::string>(std::cin), std::istream_iterator<std::string>(), std::back_inserter(file_names));
// print the filenames
std::copy(file_names.begin(), file_names.end(), std::ostream_iterator<std::string>(std::cout, "\n"));
return 0;
}

Is there a way to use _T/TEXT "conditionally" inside a macro?

This question is specific to Visual C++ (you may assume Visual C++ 2005 and later).
I would like to create glue code for a program from unixoid systems (FreeBSD in particular) in order build and run on Win32 with a minimum of changes to the original .c file. Now, most of this is straightforward, but now I ran into an issue. I am using the tchar.h header and TCHAR/_TCHAR and need to create glue code for the err and errx calls (see err(3)) in the original code. Bear with me, even if you don't agree that code using tchar.h should still be written.
The calls to err and errx take roughly two forms, and this is where the problem occurs:
err(1, "some string with %d format specifiers and %s such", ...)
/* or */
err(1, NULL, ...)
The latter would output the error stored in errno (using strerror).
Now, the question is, is there any way to write a generic macro that can take both NULL and a string literal? I do not have to (and will not) care about variables getting passed as the second parameter, only NULL and literal strings.
Of course my naive initial approach didn't account for fmt passed as NULL (using variadic macros!):
#define err(eval, fmt, ...) my_err(eval, _T(fmt), __VA_ARGS__)
Right now I don't have any ideas how to achieve this with macros, because it would require a kind of mix of compile-time and runtime conditionals that I cannot imagine at the moment. So I am looking for an authoritative answer whether this is conceivable at all or not.
The method I am resorting to right now - lacking a better approach - is to write a wrapper function that accepts, just like err and errx, a (const) char * and then converting that to wchar_t * if compiled with _UNICODE defined. This should work, assuming that the caller passes a _TCHAR* string for the variable arguments after the fmt (which is a sane assumption in my context). Otherwise I'd also have to convert %s to %hs inside the format string, to handle "ANSI" strings, as MS calls them.
Here's one solution:
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0502
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#ifdef _UNICODE
#define LNULL NULL
#define fn(x) myfn(L ## x)
#else
#define fn(x) myfn(x)
#endif
void myfn(TCHAR * str)
{
if (str == NULL) _tprintf(_T("<NULL>")); else _tprintf(str);
_tprintf(_T("\n"));
}
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
fn("hello");
fn(NULL);
return 0;
}

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