15 May 2000 zw   » (Master)

Neil came up with an ingenious algorithm for expanding macros, which should get the C standard's semantics just right, but avoid having to scan any token more than once. It's remarkably simple to implement, but difficult to describe and not easy to comprehend from reading the code. There's going to be a long comment explaining it somewhere.

Anyway, I've implemented all of it except stringification, which is presenting some difficulties. I'm a wee bit concerned about the way the algorithm interacts with the macro stack as I designed it - we may be losing critical information. But it's late and I'm tired, and it'll probably all make sense tomorrow.

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