Re: [Boost-users] boost python macro hell

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost python macro hell
From: Anthony Foglia (AFoglia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-14 12:01:13

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Probably OT, but I'm trying to generate modules programmatically.  Each 
>> module with be generated using -DSIMCASE=n and will create a module called 
>> ldpc_n.so.
>>
>> I can't get this macro to work, this is my latest try:
>>
>> #define SIMCASE 10
>> #define NAME ldpc_ ## SIMCASE
>> #define MODULE_START BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE (NAME)
>>
>> Later I have:
>> MODULE_START {
>> ...
>> }
> 
> BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE is poorly written. It does not use BOOST_JOIN where it
> supposed to. I ended up rewriting it for our code.

Perhaps, but it sounds like he could avoid this particular problem with 
the change

#define NAME BOOST_JOIN(ldpc_, SIMCASE)

Then again, I don't know much macro programming, and never heard of 
BOOST_JOIN before.

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