How do you perform macro expansion within #ifdef?

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Published on 2010-04-24T06:47:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 6:53 UTC
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Hi all,

I have some fairly generic code which uses preprocessor macros to add a certain prefix onto other macros. This is a much simplified example of what happens:

#define MY_VAR(x) prefix_##x

"prefix_" is actually defined elsewhere, so it will be different each time the file is included. It works well, but now I have some code I would like to skip if one of the tokens doesn't exist, but this doesn't work:

#if defined MY_VAR(hello)

What I want it to expand to is this:

#ifdef prefix_hello

But I can't figure out how. I need to use the MY_VAR() macro to do the expansion, so I can't just hardcode the name. (It's actually for some testing code, the same code gets included with a different prefix each time to test a bunch of classes, and I want to skip a couple of tests for a handful of the classes.)

Is this possible with the C++ preprocessor?

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