Macro that expand differently depending on the function calling it.

Hi,

Lets say I want to define a generic macro to swap bytes in a integer:
#define swapbytes(x) ...
I have several implementation of the macros, one is generic C, the
other one will be an optimized assembly version for a specific
architecture.

So I do something like that in swapbytes.h:

#ifdef __SOME_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC_MACRO__
#define swapbytes(x) \
... some implementation defined assembly crap...
#else
#define swapbytes(x) \
... some generic C code ...
#endif

This works well and I can extend this to support many different
implementation dependent optimizations: MIPS, ARM, x86,...

Now i have an additional issue. In some case, I have two functions in
the same source files that requires two different implementations of
the macro. An example of such case is when you deal with arm thumb or
mips16 instruction set. Some implementation allows you to mix both
types of code, but my swapbytes macro would needs to be different for
both of them.

Is there any way to handle that while still keeping a generic include
file ?

Thanks

-- Fabrice

PS: If you think this is off-topic because I mention mips16 and thumb,
dont even bother replying.I think the C standard was designed to cope
with implementation specific extensions and issues like this.

.

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