Hello, In my C code, I have: #define message message("Start\n"); When I look at the SRC file, I see: RSEG ?CO?MAIN ?SC_0: DB 'S' ,'t' ,'a' ,'r' ,'t' ,00AH,000H ; message("Start\n"); Why does the C51 version 1.32 keep "Start\n" in the output? Does this also happen to newer version? Thanks, Anh
Sounds like a very bad idea to me. remember, it's the preprocessor that does macro expansion, and it's also the prepropcessor that strips comments... Far better to make your macro expansion explicitly & directly conditional (as described in the TRACE example), than rely on the order of macro "side-effects"...
I'd agree. (My previous post was answering the question asked, rather than recommending a strategy. See the linked thread in which I make other comments.)