Defect: Prepocessor fails to expand x-macro macro parameter

[mavik1]

cppcheck fails to preprocess the code below:

> cppcheck --version
Cppcheck 2.3
> cppcheck -E main.c
main.c:12:0: error: failed to expand 'COLOR_SET', Wrong number of parameters for macro 'ALL_COLORS'. [preprocessorErrorDirective]
#define COLOR_SET ALL_COLORS(WARM_COLORS)
^

main.c:

#define ALL_COLORS(warm_colors) \
	X(Blue) \
	X(Green) \
	X(Purple) \
	warm_colors

#define WARM_COLORS \
	X(Red) \
	X(Yellow) \
	X(Orange)

#define COLOR_SET ALL_COLORS(WARM_COLORS)

#define X(color) #color,

COLOR_SET

gcc handles it fine:

> gcc -E main.c
# 1 "main.c"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "/usr/include/stdc-predef.h" 1 3 4
# 1 "<command-line>" 2
# 1 "main.c"
# 16 "main.c"
"Blue", "Green", "Purple", "Red", "Yellow", "Orange",

[mavik1]

A work around for this issue is to use an EVAL() macro:

#define EVAL(...) __VA_ARGS__

#define ALL_COLORS(warm_colors) \
	X(Blue) \
	X(Green) \
	X(Purple) \
	warm_colors

#define WARM_COLORS \
	X(Red) \
	X(Yellow) \
	X(Orange)

#define COLOR_SET ALL_COLORS(EVAL(WARM_COLORS))

#define X(color) #color,

COLOR_SET

> cppcheck -E main.c

















 "Blue"  ,  "Green"  ,  "Purple"  ,  "Red"  ,  "Yellow"  ,  "Orange"  ,

[danmar]

ok.

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