Thread: defined function return type problem

Hi, I was trying to use #define to build several functions that all contains similar code but with different variables types and return types, etc. The following example will look useless, but I found out that it can't work because the compiler removes my whitespaces. I would like to know if it is possible to achieve something like this:

Code:

#define MAKE_FUNCTION(FUNC_NAME) bool ##FUNC_NAME##(void) {return 0;}

MAKE_FUNCTION(some_func)	//Expands to "boolsome_func(void) {return 0;}" and gives error

So my problem is that the compiler deletes the space between the return type and the function's name. However, if the macro would have returned "bool*" for example, it would have compiled correctly because "bool*some_func" gets separeted with the pointer. But... Is it supposed to be possible for my "bool some_func" case?

Thanks

Thanks alot it works just fine! I thought that not writting a "##" before the FUNC_NAME would have caused a compilation error, since the macro params should always be surrounded with "##".

Is this something a template can do better?

Well, I guess that with the little example I have shown, templates would have been a better solution, but in my real application, I can't use a templated function there, unless I would use template specialisations thing.

Thanks to all!