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Re: misdefined macro _T in winnt.h


> From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> 
> Eric Paire wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry folks, I have forgotten to tell you to compile it with the _UNICODE
> > and UNICODE defined. Here is a corrected  version that has some problems
> > when compiled:
> > 
> > ------  Cut Here  ------  Cut Here  ------  Cut Here  ------  Cut Here  ------
> >  #define __DIR "dir"
> > 
> >  #include <stddef.h>
> >  #include <tchar.h>
> >  main() {
> >         size_t len = wcslen(_T(__DIR)) + wcslen(_T("dir"));
> >         size_t len = wcslen(_TEXT(__DIR)) + wcslen(_TEXT("dir"));
> >         exit(len);
> >  }
> > ------  Cut Here  ------  Cut Here  ------  Cut Here  ------  Cut Here  ------
> > 
> > You will see that the problem is around the evaluation of the __DIR macro
> > (there is no problem with "dir"), both for _TEXT and _T. In addition, this
> > should be fixed also for the _T and _TEXT definitions in <winnt.h>, which
> > should be coherent with those in <tchar.h> (They are not for now, as _T is
> > defined either as an object-like macro (in <winnt.h>) or as a function-like
> > macro (in <tchar.h>)).
> > 
> > If you want me to provide you with a patch (and a ChangeLog), let me know...
> 
> No, I don't need a patch.  I do need to know if
>   L"dir" == L("dir")
> ?  The problem with this macro is the use of the macro concatenation ##
> and the order in which the macros are resolved.  Currently we have
>   #define _T(x) L ## x
> and if you pass a macro FOO as an argument to this macro you get LFOO
> returned and not the value of FOO appended to L.  If I change this to
>   #define _T(x) L(x)
> then I get returned L("bar") where "bar" is the value of FOO.  This
> allows the program to compile but does L"bar" == L("bar")?


No. I'm certain of that, more or less ...


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