Is there a way to add a new line in the define? Many preprocessors have a way to do this. what I need to do is have output like this from the macro:

int foo;
#define debug_foo ce_adddebugvar(&foo,ce_debug_int,"foo");

I can get the results I want with 2 macros but would rather have just one for maintenance reasons. BTW defining a macro in a macro works right now... Please don't change this!!!

Why doesn't this work for you?

Well I almost got it to work... turns out we need a stringize macro operator to make everything work

the macro should be:



You would define a global like:

NEWVAR(int,foo,ce_debug_int)

then later in the code in a function could call

debug_foo;

This would add the variable pointer to the console to be viewed and modified. but the problem is we don't have an # operator in macros in lite-c The solution I came up with for now is to just include a quoted copy of the name as an additional parameter. The real solution may just be to write a preprocessor for lite-c as a separate program. I think I have some source from about 20 years ago that would be a good starting point....

New preprocessor is working well :-) As soon as I document it I will give JCL the code and see if they want to integrate it into lite-c. Otherwise I will post the source in the contributions forum.. It is a full preprocessor that includes #if, #elif, #error etc. Supports the defined(sym) psudo function in #if and #elif. They also support full c expressions. macros with up to 63 parameters. And the list goes on... Maybe later I tackle lite-c++ to add classes and enum to the language...