Ifdef
4.2.1 Ifdef
The simplest sort of conditional is
#ifdef MACRO controlled text #endif /* MACRO */
This block is called a conditional group. controlled text will be included in the output of the preprocessor if and only if MACRO is defined. We say that the conditional succeeds if MACRO is defined, fails if it is not.
The controlled text inside of a conditional can include preprocessing directives. They are executed only if the conditional succeeds. You can nest conditional groups inside other conditional groups, but they must be completely nested. In other words, ‘#endif
’ always matches the nearest ‘#ifdef
’ (or ‘#ifndef
’, or ‘#if
’). Also, you cannot start a conditional group in one file and end it in another.
Even if a conditional fails, the controlled text<