> Ordinarily the C preprocessor doesn't perform macro expansions
> within quoted strings.  But what if you have an application in which
> you DO want the preprocessor to perform a macro expansion within a
> string?

> For example:

>    typedef enum {
>       VALUE_1,
>       VALUE_2,
>       VALUE_3
>    } my_enumtype;

>    #define MY_MACRO(parm) printf("the value of parm is %d", parm);

>    main () {
>       MY_MACRO(VALUE_1);
>    }

> The output i'd like to see is:

>    the value of VALUE_1 is 0

> But because the preprocessor won't expand the first occurrance of
> parm (per K&R page 86), the actual output of this macro is:

>    the value of parm is 0

> Anybody know a clever trick for faking out the preprocessor so it
> will do this?

>Ordinarily the C preprocessor doesn't perform macro expansions
>within quoted strings.  But what if you have an application in which
>you DO want the preprocessor to perform a macro expansion within a
>string?
>Anybody know a clever trick for faking out the preprocessor so it
>will do this?