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| <h4 class="subsection">4.2.3 Defined</h4> |
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| <p><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bdefined_007d-89"></a>The special operator <code>defined</code> is used in ‘<samp><span class="samp">#if</span></samp>’ and |
| ‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ expressions to test whether a certain name is defined as a |
| macro. <code>defined </code><var>name</var> and <code>defined (</code><var>name</var><code>)</code> are |
| both expressions whose value is 1 if <var>name</var> is defined as a macro at |
| the current point in the program, and 0 otherwise. Thus, <code>#if defined MACRO<!-- /@w --></code> is precisely equivalent to <code>#ifdef MACRO<!-- /@w --></code>. |
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| <p><code>defined</code> is useful when you wish to test more than one macro for |
| existence at once. For example, |
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| <pre class="smallexample"> #if defined (__vax__) || defined (__ns16000__) |
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| <p class="noindent">would succeed if either of the names <code>__vax__</code> or |
| <code>__ns16000__</code> is defined as a macro. |
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| <p>Conditionals written like this: |
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| <pre class="smallexample"> #if defined BUFSIZE && BUFSIZE >= 1024 |
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| <p class="noindent">can generally be simplified to just <code>#if BUFSIZE >= 1024<!-- /@w --></code>, |
| since if <code>BUFSIZE</code> is not defined, it will be interpreted as having |
| the value zero. |
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| <p>If the <code>defined</code> operator appears as a result of a macro expansion, |
| the C standard says the behavior is undefined. GNU cpp treats it as a |
| genuine <code>defined</code> operator and evaluates it normally. It will warn |
| wherever your code uses this feature if you use the command-line option |
| <samp><span class="option">-pedantic</span></samp>, since other compilers may handle it differently. |
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