Macro Power Toys 🎲

A collection of useful macros for manipulating the arguments. Useful codebase that needs a decent amount of preprocessing before compiling.

Just include MacroPowerToys.h to enjoy the macros.

Macros

• Appending / Concatenating items between two lists
• Counting the number of arguments
• Generate a list that counts up to the number
• Get the last argument
• Check if arguments are empty or not
• Remove parenthesis
• Miscellaneous Macros (Concatenating, Composing)
• Macro Function Overloading
• Prefixing, Suffixing, Prepending or Appending to all arguments

Appending / Concatenating items between two lists

• MPT_APPEND_LISTS_ITEMS( commaSeparatedList1, commaSeparatedList2 )
• MPT_CONCAT_LISTS_ITEMS( commaSeparatedList1, commaSeparatedList2 )

//Appending lists items, up to 100 items
MPT_APPEND_LISTS_ITEMS( a1, a2, b1, b2 )

//Expands to...
a1 b1, a2 b2

//For example:
#define TYPES_LIST int, char, void*
#define NAMES _1, _2, _3

MPT_APPEND_LISTS_ITEMS( TYPES_LIST, NAMES )

//Expands to...
int _1, char _2, void* _3



//Similarly, to concatenate lists items, up to 100 items
MPT_CONCAT_LISTS_ITEMS( a1, a2, b1, b2 )

//Expands to...
a1b1, a2b2

Counting the number of arguments

• MPT_ARGS_COUNT( arguments )

//Count lists items, up to 100 items
MPT_ARGS_COUNT( a1, a2, a3, a4 )

//Expands to...

4

Generate a list that counts up to the number

• MPT_COUNT_TO_<Number>_(prefix, suffix)
• MPT_COUNT_TO_<Number>_MINUS_1(prefix, suffix)

//Create a list that counts up to 5
MPT_COUNT_TO_5_( prefix_, /* no suffix */ )
MPT_COUNT_TO_3_MINUS_1( _, _ )

//Expands to...

prefix_1, prefix_2, prefix_3, prefix_4, prefix_5
_1_, _2_

Get the last argument

• MPT_GET_LAST_ARG( arguments )

//Get the last argument in the list
MPT_GET_LAST_ARG( a1, a2, a3, a4 )

//Expands to...

a4

Check if arguments are empty or not

• MPT_ARE_ARGS_EMPTY( arguments )

//Check if the list is empty
#define EMPTY_LIST
#define NOT_EMPTY_LIST 1, 2, 3

MPT_ARE_ARGS_EMPTY(EMPTY_LIST)
MPT_ARE_ARGS_EMPTY(NOT_EMPTY_LIST)

//Expands to...

EMPTY
NOT_EMPTY

Remove parenthesis

• MPT_REMOVE_PARENTHESIS( argument )
  • This removes any outer parenthesis for argument if there's any
• MPT_REMOVE_PARENTHESIS_IN_LIST( arguments )
  • Same as MPT_REMOVE_PARENTHESIS but does it for each item in the list

MPT_REMOVE_PARENTHESIS( (ITEM_1) )
MPT_REMOVE_PARENTHESIS( (ITEM_1, ITEM_2) )
MPT_REMOVE_PARENTHESIS( ITEM_2 )

MPT_REMOVE_PARENTHESIS_IN_LIST( (ITEM_1), (ITEM_1, ITEM_2), ITEM_2 )

//Expands to...

ITEM_1
ITEM_1, ITEM_2
ITEM_2

ITEM_1, ITEM_1, ITEM_2, ITEM_2

Miscellaneous Macros (Concatenating, Composing)

• MPT_CONCAT( a, b )
  • This has 20 copies for nested calling

  MPT_CONCAT2( a, b ), MPT_CONCAT3( a, b ), etc...

  • This also has a delayed version for ability to not expand immediately

  MPT_DELAYED_CONCAT( a, b ), MPT_DELAYED_CONCAT2( a, b ), etc...

• MPT_COMPOSE( a, b )
  • This has 20 copies for nested calling

  MPT_COMPOSE2( a, b ), MPT_COMPOSE3( a, b ), etc...

  • This also has a delayed version for ability to not expand immediately

  MPT_DELAYED_COMPOSE( a, b ), MPT_DELAYED_COMPOSE2( a, b ), etc...

• MPT_DELAY(...)
  • Delays the expansion of the arguments

MPT_CONCAT( ITEM_1, ITEM_2 )
MPT_COMPOSE( ITEM_1, ITEM_2 )
MPT_DELAY(ITEM_1, ITEM_2)

//Expands to...

ITEM_1ITEM_2
ITEM_1 ITEM_2
ITEM_1, ITEM_2

Macro Function Overloading

• MPT_OVERLOAD_MACRO( macroName, arguments )

#define MACRO_FUNC_0() 0
#define MACRO_FUNC_1( a ) a
#define MACRO_FUNC_2( a, b ) a + b

// Using MPT_OVERLOAD_MACRO to allow MACRO_FUNC to be overloaded based on number of arguments
#define MACRO_FUNC( ... ) MPT_OVERLOAD_MACRO( MACRO_FUNC, __VA_ARGS__ )

MACRO_FUNC()
MACRO_FUNC(10)
MACRO_FUNC(1, 2)

// Expands to...

0       //MACRO_FUNC_0()
10      //MACRO_FUNC_1(10)
1 + 2   //MACRO_FUNC_2(1, 2)

Prefixing, Suffixing, Prepending or Appending to all arguments

• MPT_PREFIX_SUFFIX_ARGS( prefix, suffix, arguments )
• MPT_PREPEND_APPEND_ARGS( prepend, append, arguments )

MPT_PREFIX_SUFFIX_ARGS( /* no prefix*/, _suffix, a1, a2, a3 )
MPT_PREPEND_APPEND_ARGS( const, /* no append */, int, char, char* )

// Expands to...

a1_suffix, a2_suffix, a3_suffix
const int, const char, const char*