Generate an integer expression of type T and value X.
This macro is suitable for use in preprocessor conditionals, provided X evaluates to an integer constant.
- Warning
- Beware that the type information T is simply ignored by the preprocessor because its arithmetic is done with types
intmax_t or uintmax_t. If you want to be sure that it is used as uintmax_t suffix the constant X with an "u" or "U".
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Don't use this to perform bit-complement arithmetic in the preprocessor, since
uintmax_t might have more bits than T, the result might not be what you expect.
- Parameters
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| T | must be a type identifier, just one word that represents a type. |
| X | could be any integer expression that is allowed in the same context. It is an error for X to evaluate to a pointer value. |
The macro itself uses a dirty trick. In preprocessor context of conditional evaluation the T in the expansion is just an identifier that is unknown to the preprocessor and it is thus replaced by 0. The + sign is thus a binary plus.
In program context + sign is thus a prefix to the integer expression. This results in an error when an attempt is made to use this with a pointer value.
Definition at line 302 of file p99_int.h.
