Submitted by musou in programming
flabberghaster wrote
OK so this is kind of a pain in the neck to do a lot of times but sometimes you can get the output if the C preprocessor.
Then through careful editing, you can kind of figure out what it's turning in to.
int main(...) {
WEIRD_MACRO(1, 2);
}
Then you could just put comments above and below it, and run cpp -I/all/include/directories main.c
It will tell you the final output and also have debugging garbage about where each thing expanded from.
Not ideal, and also in a big project that uses a complex build tool it can be incredibly hard to get the cpp args, but it can help.
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