Re: Some K&R support to be removed from sys/cdefs.h

Hi Jessica,

Am Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 04:19:11AM +0000 schrieb Jessica Clarke:
> On 20 Nov 2023, at 04:15, Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Warner,
> > 
> > __STRING and __CONCAT are still needed with ANSI C to change evaluation order.
> > For example, I recently used __CONCAT in lib/libc/amd64/amd64_archlevel.h to
> > build function names from pieces.  ## cannot be used as that doesn't work if
> > the argument passed to the macro is in turn a macro.  Similar things apply to
> > __STRING.
> 
> You mean __XSTRING; __CONCAT is to __XSTRING what __CONCAT1 is to __STRING,
> confusingly (though __CONCAT1 is unused except for implementing __CONCAT).

It could be that __XSTRING is the one for stringification.  I didn't have a need
for it so far if I remember correctly.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

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