The preprocesser for lite-c is missing some functionality.

1) The manifest constants __FILE__ and __LINE__

2) the ability to do #if (logical expression)
where logical expression is made up of simple math
and defined values and constants.

Yes, those new features for the preprocessor are certainly useful, however they are not planned in the next time - more important things have higher priority.

Is there a reason why __FILE__ and __LINE__ has such a low priority? I mean, the compiler should have these informations and it shouldn't be too hard to just extend __FILE__ with a static string and __LINE__ with an integer value. From my perspective this sounds like a morning of work max? Or am I overlooking something? Because __FILE__ and __LINE__ are certainly nice to have, for example to write some nice logging system.

One year passed and still no news on this.
The __FILE__ and __LINE__ macros would be really helpful(already requested multiple times since 2007 )
Also, the #(stringify operator) doesn't work for macros...(requested since 2009 )
(Sorry for digging up the old thread, but those macros would be really helpful for my current project)

agreed

I guess the low priority is because none of us is using __FILE__ and __LINE__ in his code. But ok, I see that they may be useful and have put them on the list for 8.60.

However, for logging or version management I recommend TortoiseSVN - that's certainly better than macros in the code, and has more than once saved my day.

__FILE__ and __LINE__ for version managment?

Subversion for logging purposes?

Now I'm bemused...

Nice! thank you.
I need it for a frame based user interface not for logging or version managment(whatever you mean with logging with tortoisesvn oO)