g++ command line macro define byte stream

Question

I\'m looking for the solution to define a byte stream as a macro from gcc/g++ command line via option -D, e.g. -Dxxx=byte_stream.

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Answer 1

First this depends a lot from your environment, and the shell that you are using. For /bin/sh you could try something like

-DMAGIC_BYTES='"\x01\x02"'

that is escape the whole string with ''.