William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> #macro counted_string var, s
> #equ $s_n 0
> #irpc s
> #equ $s_n $s_n+1
> #end // irpc to count chars
> unsigned char var[$s_n+2] = { $s_n, // store count
> #irpc s
> 's',     // store characters
> #end //irpc to store chars
> 0};  // null terminate just in case
> #endmacro

This looks like it should be possible in standard C:

#define counted_string( mVarname, mStringliteral ) \
  struct { \
    unsigned char size; \
    unsigned char content[sizeof(mStringliteral)]; \
  } mVarname \
  = { \
    sizeof(mStringliteral), \
    mStringliteral \
  }

Not quite the same, but possibly better style (in that it separates the
size and the content into two different entities). If you need to access
the size and the content as a single array, you can add a union around the
struct. Still not the same (in that it needs the union qualifier to access
the array), but that possibly could be remedied with yet another macro :)

Gerhard

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