Asked on Stack Overflow, but they suggested to move it here
A while ago I was reading about quines. It made me wonder if it possible to write a macro in C which will print itself, without writing any function such as main. every piece of code should be only in macro. After a few attempts, I couldn't find the solution.
While searching the web for answer, I found the following code:
#define Q(x) #x;x
char *q=Q(main(){printf("#define Q(x) #x;x\nchar *q=Q(");printf(q);printf(")\n");})
Although part of the code isn't in the #define (isn't macro). Is it possible to implement a macro which will print the program ( quine type program )?
EDIT: if it isn't possible (because the macros are 'made' in the preprocessor step), is it possible to implement a quine which is mostly in macros?
