On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 01:06 -0600, Dwayne Reid wrote:

> One of the things that really bugs me about C programs is that there=20
> didn't appear to be any easy way to do this simple function.  This=20
> thread has shown me that there is something relatively close.

It isn't just relatively close, it is identical.  In both cases the
symbol is replaced by text before assembly/compilation.  #define is
simply a text replacement, nothing more.

The thing that is perhaps a little different is that in C there are a
lot more contexts where a text replacement might be used, so sometimes
you have to add a little more decoration to the replacement text. But
remembering that it is a text replacement that happens in the
preprocessor will eliminate any confusion, in both cases.

I am convinced that Microchip simply took the #define syntax from C.
And they wouldn't be the first.

--McD



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