Am Samstag, dem 07.12.2024 um 21:00 +0000 schrieb David Laight: > From: Martin Uecker > > Sent: 07 December 2024 19:52 ... > > > There exist proposals along those lines for C2Y. > > > > From a more near-term solution, I wonder if making it possible (or > > easier) to return integer constant expressions from statement > > expressions and allowing a restricted form of statement expressions > > at file scope would help? > > It would help a lot if a #define that just used local variables > to avoid arguments being re-expanded and for CSE could still > generate a constant value. > Does need to be a #define - to get token pasting and 'stringify'. > Although you would need something for reporting detected errors, > and builtin compiler support for const_true() for the detection > itself. We are super close: https://godbolt.org/z/Tarq89bha (if we ignore the grotesque hacks to get there, but this would go away if the compiler does it internally) Martin
