On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:55:51 +0200, Christoph Hormann
<chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:

>I recently experienced the same problem and i think you can't.  File
>handles are different from other identifiers. 

Then why can I #undef, #ifdef and #ifndef them? I mean, sure they are
not normal identifiers, you can't assign to them etc. but the fact
that you can't pass them to macros looks to me like an overlooking and
not a design feature.

The docs don't mention it anywhere. What they say is that a macro
parameter is either an RVALUE or an identifier. However, a file handle
*is* in a way an identifier as it a) uniquely identifies a file and b)
you can #ifdef, #ifndef and #undef it. So why the limitation?


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