Extension to the FFI to allow macro expansions to be avoided

[Fergus Henderson]

On 13-Apr-2004, Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:55:47AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > > I'd favour turning off the
> > > macro interface, preferably with #undef, at least by default.
> > 
> > Agreed.  Why is #undef to be preferred over adding parentheses around
> > the function name as Ian originally suggested?
> 
> It would also switch off
> 
> #define func another_func
> 
> and
> 
> #define errno thread_local_errno()

Why is that preferred?  Undefining errno means that it won't work!

As the C standard says:

 |        It is unspecified whether errno
 |        is a macro or an identifier declared with external  linkage.
 |        If  a  macro  definition is suppressed in order to access an
 |        actual object ...  the behavior is undefined.

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