Re: [boost] BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE with MSVC 7.1 broken in 1.33.0 libraryversion

From: Paul Mensonides (pmenso57_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-24 15:31:56

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Sergey Skorniakov

> #define AAA const char bbb[] = BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE(prefix 
> BOOST_PP_COMMA()
> postfix)
> 
> AAA;

It isn't broken.  That isn't supposed to work (and there is no way to make it
work without variadic macros).  The best you can do is separate the strings:

... = BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE(prefix) ", " BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE(postfix)

> Preprocessing of such a code is accompanied by warning C4002: 
> too many actual parameters for macro 'BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE_I'.
> 
> With 1.32.0 library version variable bbb value was "prefix, 
> postfix". With new version it is just "prefix". 

It only worked because VC's preprocessor is so horribly broken.

Regards,
Paul Mensonides