[uecker]

In practice it is written like like this:

  #define MY_ENUM(x) x(MY_A) x(MY_B) x(MY_C)
  enum my_enum { MY_ENUM(ENUM_ENTRIES) };

  static const char *my_enum_names[] = { MY_ENUM(ENUM_NAMES) };

but one could also make it even more compact if one cared.

[spacechild1]

That doesn't look any better.

Yes, xmacros have the best compile times, but you can't possibly argue that they are elegant to use compared to the alternatives.

[uecker]

It looks better to me than the other macro solution as it is more transparent what is done compared to DEFINE_ENUM. But I agree it is not as succinct as C++'s reflection syntax.

[spacechild1]

> It looks better to me than the other macro solution as it is more transparent what is done compared to DEFINE_ENUM.

Fair enough.