bill wrote: > I was trying to do exactly this type of thing just last night! My > reason is I've got > a bunch of code that reads: > #ifdef FOO > debug("FOO\n"); > #endif > It's printing to a debug file to help track down what options were > defined. This is > several hundred lines of code, and it's a bit ugly. It would be nice to > be able to > write "PRINT_MACRO(FOO)" and have it expand to the 3 lines above. But why in the world would PRINT_MACRO need to include the #ifdef? Why not just do this once: #ifdef FOO # define PRINT_MACRO(x) debug(x) #else # define PRINT_MACRO(x) #endif Brian