I'm trying to do something like: #define FIRST_MACRO(a,b) \ int some_global_var = a; \ int some_other_global_var = b; \ extern int some_variable; \ \#define some_function() some_other_function() And some_other_function will use the variables some_global_var and some_other_global_var in it's body. There's an implementation of some_function _already_ compiled in library. But in some cases, if FIRST_MACRO is defined, I want a source program to use some_other_function (from that same library) instead of some_function. And the source program already contains calls to some_function. Hence I want to develop FIRST_MACRO so that if this macro is defined in the source program, then this change happens. I don't want the author of the source program to have to manually write that huge body (there's more in the body) defined by FIRST_MACRO. On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:01 -0800, John (Eljay) Love-Jensen wrote: > Hi Kristis, > > Could you provide an example of what you are trying to do? > > Is it something like this... > > #define FOO #define BAR QUUX > > ...or something like this... > > #define MAKE_ID(x, y) x ## y > > --Eljay