Question

Suppose my program is:

typedef int MYINT;

int main()  
{  
    MYINT x = 5;  
    ........  
    do_something()    
    ........    
    /* I wanna test whether MYINT is defined or not */
    /* I can't use: ifdef (MYINT), since MYINT is not a macro */

    ........
    return 0;
}

Actually, I encountered this problem while I was using a cross-compiler for vxworks. The cross-compiler header file included: typedef int INT.

But, my stack’s header file used:

 #ifndef INT  
 #define int INT

Can you please suggest how to test typedefs, whether they are defined previously or not?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

No, this is not possible. Your best option is to use typedef yourself, since redefinition of a typedef is an error.

#ifdef INT
# error "No, we want to define INT!"
#endif

typedef int INT;  // error if previously typedef'd

(I suppose you didn’t really want to #define int INT 🙂