[erlang-questions] marco definition in beam_emu.c

[Nahuel Greco]

Thats the gcc (or C99?) way to mark you want to evaluate a macro
variable when is in contact with another string, so if you define:

#define OpCase(OpCode)    case op_##OpCode: lb_##OpCode
#define OpCase2(OpCode)  case op_OpCode: lb_OpCode

OpCase(444) will be translated to "case op_444: lb_444"
OpCase2(444) will be translated to "case_OpCode: lb_OpCode", and
surely you don't want that.

Saludos,
Nahuel Greco.



On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:50 PM, caox <caox@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi
> When reading the source code of beam_emu.c, I found the following marcos:
> #if defined(NO_JUMP_TABLE)
> #  define OpCase(OpCode)    case op_##OpCode: lb_##OpCode
> #  define CountCase(OpCode) case op_count_##OpCode
> #  define OpCode(OpCode)    ((Uint*)op_##OpCode)
> #  define Goto(Rel) {Go = (int)(Rel); goto emulator_loop;}
> #  define LabelAddr(Addr) &&##Addr
> #else
> #  define OpCase(OpCode)    lb_##OpCode
> #  define CountCase(OpCode) lb_count_##OpCode
> #  define Goto(Rel) goto *(Rel)
> #  define LabelAddr(Label) &&Label
> #  define OpCode(OpCode)  (&&lb_##OpCode)
> #endif
> which I couldn't understand. What is the meaning of 'op_##' and 'lb_##'?
> BR
>
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