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Next: <a href="Stringizing.html#Stringizing" accesskey="n" rel="next">Stringizing</a>, Previous: <a href="Function_002dlike-Macros.html#Function_002dlike-Macros" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Function-like Macros</a>, Up: <a href="Macros.html#Macros" accesskey="u" rel="up">Macros</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index-of-Directives.html#Index-of-Directives" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="Macro-Arguments-1"></a>
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<h3 class="section">3.3 Macro Arguments</h3>
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<a name="index-arguments"></a>
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<a name="index-macros-with-arguments"></a>
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<a name="index-arguments-in-macro-definitions"></a>
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<p>Function-like macros can take <em>arguments</em>, just like true functions.
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To define a macro that uses arguments, you insert <em>parameters</em>
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between the pair of parentheses in the macro definition that make the
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separated by commas and optionally whitespace.
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<p>To invoke a macro that takes arguments, you write the name of the macro
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followed by a list of <em>actual arguments</em> in parentheses, separated
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by commas. The invocation of the macro need not be restricted to a
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macro body.)
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<pre class="smallexample">#define min(X, Y) ((X) < (Y) ? (X) : (Y))
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x = min(a, b); → x = ((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b));
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y = min(1, 2); → y = ((1) < (2) ? (1) : (2));
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z = min(a + 28, *p); → z = ((a + 28) < (*p) ? (a + 28) : (*p));
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<p>(In this small example you can already see several of the dangers of
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macro arguments. See <a href="Macro-Pitfalls.html#Macro-Pitfalls">Macro Pitfalls</a>, for detailed explanations.)
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<p>Leading and trailing whitespace in each argument is dropped, and all
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1]</code>. If you want to supply <code>array[x = y, x + 1]</code> as an argument,
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you can write it as <code>array[(x = y, x + 1)]</code>, which is equivalent C
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substituted into the macro body. After substitution, the complete text
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may seem strange, but it is carefully designed so you need not worry
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about whether any function call is actually a macro invocation. You can
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run into trouble if you try to be too clever, though. See <a href="Argument-Prescan.html#Argument-Prescan">Argument Prescan</a>, for detailed discussion.
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<p>For example, <code>min (min (a, b), c)</code> is first expanded to
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<pre class="smallexample"> min (((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b)), (c))
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<p>and then to
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<pre class="smallexample">((((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b))) < (c)
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: (c))
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<a name="index-empty-macro-arguments"></a>
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<p>You can leave macro arguments empty; this is not an error to the
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preprocessor (but many macros will then expand to invalid code).
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You cannot leave out arguments entirely; if a macro takes two arguments,
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there must be exactly one comma at the top level of its argument list.
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Here are some silly examples using <code>min</code>:
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<pre class="smallexample">min(, b) → (( ) < (b) ? ( ) : (b))
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min(a, ) → ((a ) < ( ) ? (a ) : ( ))
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min(,) → (( ) < ( ) ? ( ) : ( ))
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min((,),) → (((,)) < ( ) ? ((,)) : ( ))
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min() error→ macro "min" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
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Next: <a href="Stringizing.html#Stringizing" accesskey="n" rel="next">Stringizing</a>, Previous: <a href="Function_002dlike-Macros.html#Function_002dlike-Macros" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Function-like Macros</a>, Up: <a href="Macros.html#Macros" accesskey="u" rel="up">Macros</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index-of-Directives.html#Index-of-Directives" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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