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Asked: 2026-05-16T11:35:15+00:00

I’ve seen this done in C before: #define MY_STRING 12345 … #define SOMETHING (MY_STRING

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I’ve seen this done in C before:

#define MY_STRING "12345"
...
#define SOMETHING (MY_STRING + 2)

What does SOMETHING get expanded to, here? Is this even legal? Or do they mean this?:

#define SOMETHING (MY_STRING[2])
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  1. Editorial Team

    String literals exist in the fixed data segment of the program, so they appear to the compiler as a type of pointer.

    +-+-+-+-+-+--+
|1|2|3|4|5|\0|
+-+-+-+-+-+--+
 ^ MY_STRING
     ^ MY_STRING + 2
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