How can I generate a list via the C preprocessor (cpp)?
The normal way of doing this with the preprocessor is to define all the functions in a macro that takes another macro as an argument, and then use other macros to extract what you want. For your example:
#define FUNCTION_TABLE(F) \
F(f1, { some code }) \
F(f2, { some code }) \
F(f3, { some code }) \
:
F(f99, { some code }) \
F(f100, { some code })
#define DEFINE_FUNCTIONS(NAME, CODE) int NAME() CODE
#define FUNCTION_NAME_LIST(NAME, CODE) NAME,
FUNCTION_TABLE(DEFINE_FUNCTIONS)
int (*function_table)(void)[] = { FUNCTION_TABLE(FUNCTION_NAME_LIST) };
If you have a C99 complying compiler, the preprocessor has variable length argument lists. P99 has a preprocessor P99_FOR
that can do "code unrolling" like the one you want to achieve. To stay close to your example
#define MYFUNC(DUMMY, FN, I) int FN(void) { return I; }
#define GENFUNCS(...) \
P99_FOR(, P99_NARG(__VA_ARGS__), P00_IGN, MYFUNC, __VA_ARGS__) \
int (*function_table)(void)[] = { __VA_ARGS__ }
GENFUNCS(toto, hui, gogo);
would expand to the following (untested)
int toto(void) { return 0; }
int hui(void) { return 1; }
int gogo(void) { return 2; }
int (*function_table)(void)[] = { toto, hui, gogo };