expandHashHash(): function-like macro not expanded when '(' is not adjacent (PAR-style indirection) · Issue #656 · cppcheck-opensource/simplecpp · GitHub
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expandHashHash(): function-like macro not expanded when '(' is not adjacent (PAR-style indirection) #656
When ## concatenation produces a function-like macro name but the argument list (...) is not immediately adjacent in the replacement text (hidden behind a secondary macro parameter), simplecpp aborts expansion and emits the concatenated token bare.
Reproducer
#definePAR(a, ...) a __VA_ARGS__
#definePREFIX_SCALAR(T, N) T N
#defineDISPATCH(kind, ...) PAR(PREFIX_ ## kind, (__VA_ARGS__))
DISPATCH(SCALAR, int, x)
Expected:
int x
Actual:
1:
2:
3:
4: PREFIX_SCALAR ( int , x )
Root cause
expandHashHash() checks only B->next->op == '(' immediately after the ## result. In the PAR pattern, B->next is , (not (), so the function-like expansion is skipped.
Fix
A forward-scan fallback in the appendTokens context (expandResult==false) walks ahead on the same line, skipping , separators and resolving named parameter tokens via expandArg(), until ( is found.
Activity
firewave commentedon May 28, 2026
I am not seeing the
unknownMacromentioned in the report (that is a Cppcheck error) so I updated the expected output.