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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Numeric constants as strings
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:06:42 +0100
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Andy Parkins wrote:

> On Monday 2007 February 19 10:04, Mark Wooding wrote:
> 
>> #define STRINGIFY(foo) STRINGIFY_REALLY(foo)
>> #define STRINGIFY_REALLY(foo) #foo
>>   printf("%-" STRINGIFY(HASH_WIDTH_ASCII) "s %s%s (%d subtrees)\n",
> 
> Ah ha!  Magical.  You've taught me something there.  Thanks.

This trick is in the cpp documentation. 
(cpp.info.gz)Stringification

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