Questions tagged [macros]
A macro in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to a replacement output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure. Do not use this tag for questions regarding Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications. VBA evolved from an early macro language, but is not a macro language itself.
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Catch2 Sections as Macros
I like from the C++ unit test framework Catch2 its sections -- much more than the xUnit test fixtures. Therefore I wrote me some macros which mimic the Catch2 sections.
This is the first macro heavy ...
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Testing framework with a single assertion macro
I usually use the Catch2 testing framework in my C++ projects. Unlike other frameworks, it has only one core assertion macro for all comparisons. Instead of writing ...
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Need assistance modifying a "too large" procedure [closed]
I have a chunky VBA script that needs some help making it efficient, which I think will correct the "Procedure too Large" issue I just ran into.
I run the procedure from an open workbook ...
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C - Force a macro argument to be a string literal
The requirement is to define a macro which takes a single argument that is a string literal.
My first try at it was to surround it with empty string literals (I got this from Modern C):
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string compatible enum-like structure
So I've decided to flex showcase my "enum that accepts strings etc..." here.
I don't know if it's great but I'm pretty sure it's decent. It is implemented in less than 200 lines of code (not ...
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C++ extended switch for any class
Was thinking about extending the C switch beyond integers. Here is what it came to - will gladly accept any suggestions for improvement.
Note: "Any class" in the title is not quite correct - ...
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Portable lambda emulation in C
For fun I decided to try to emulate lambda functions in plain old C. It turns out it can be easily done with a bit of macro abuse.
CLambda struct stores function ...
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Custom derive macro to create getters and setters
To learn how custom derive macros work in Rust, I decided to create a simple derive macro to provide getters and setters for a given struct.
It would be used like this:
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Procedural macro to derive de/serialization trait from/to little endian bytes
I wrote a trait library that allows the de-/serialization of data structures from/to little endian bytes 1.
For it I now wrote my first procedural macro 2 to be able to derive the traits ...
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JVM bytecode instruction struct with serializer & parser
I am writing a java class file parsing & serialization library. As part of that i needed to implement a structure for the JVM bytecode instructions as well as come up with a way to parse & ...
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Logger using variadic macros
I'm getting back into C and I wrote this variadic logger as part of a chess application I'm writing. As such I'm looking for feedback about the general approach (I'm going to give it another pass to ...
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C23 Vector Macro Implementation
I'm trying to implement a simple type-generic Vector with macros using the newest features of C23. Looking for any advice about macro design and pitfalls because I generally avoid macros at all costs. ...
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C macro based dynamic array library
This library is a fork of eteran/c-vector. It is macro based, so that it is generic, without void pointers and additional functions. This of course means that it has the downsides of macros in C. The ...
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C Macro Generic Linked List
For a recent project of mine I had to create various data structures in pure C with no external libraries (in other words, code I've written by myself), which lacks the templating and OOP capabilities ...
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Code compares Columns "A" of two workbooks and copies different information to destination workbook with entire selected row. LastRow count slows code
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I have a code, which performs two tasks -
To open two workbooks, one being extract info and one destination and it compares the column A with Column A of these workbooks and all ...
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