PB 5.20 LTS (Linux & Win): apparent bug in the macro parser

[BorisTheOld]

It appears as if the macro processor, in some situations, is terminating it's scanning too early. It's not satisfying itself that there are no more macro substitutions to be processed.

This code compiles:

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Macro typInt32
  i
EndMacro

x.typInt32   ; x.i

And this code compiles:

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Macro typInt32
  i
EndMacro

Macro Field (DataName, DataType)
  DataName.DataType
EndMacro

Field(x, typInt32)   ; x.i

But this code causes the compiler to complain about a missing structure named, "typInt32".

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Macro typInt32
  i
EndMacro

Macro Field (DataName, DataType)
  DataName.typ#DataType
EndMacro

Field(x, Int32)   ; structure not found: typint32

[Fred]

That's right, such constructs are not supported by the macro preprocessor. Moved to feature request.

[BorisTheOld]

Thanks.

I assume that a macro parameter is parsed against other macros until no more changes occur, then its text is substituted into the macro body. Rather than first substituting the parameters into the macro body, then parsing the macro body until no more changes occur.