Use multiple macros in a macro definition - c

Question

I'm trying to use multiple macros in the definition of another macro, but seem to have problems concatenating them together. Here's a very simplified version of what I'm trying to do:
#include <stdio.h>
#define PICK_SET_A
#ifdef PICK_SET_A
#define SET A
#endif
#ifdef PICK_SET_B
#define SET B
#endif
#define ENABLE_VAR_1_A 1
#define ENABLE_VAR_2_A 1
#define ENABLE_VAR_1_B 0
#define ENABLE_VAR_2_B 0
#define MACRO_RESOLVE(var,set) ENABLE_VAR_##var##_##set
#define ENABLE_VAR_1 MACRO_RESOLVE(1, SET)
#define ENABLE_VAR_2 MACRO_RESOLVE(2, SET)
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
fprintf(stdout, "VALUE: %d\n", ENABLE_VAR_1);
return 0;
}
I would expect the result to be 0.
However, I'm getting compile errors because the MACRO_RESOLVE macro isn't resolving the way I expect it to:
$ gcc -o asdf asdf.c
asdf.c:25:36: error: use of undeclared identifier 'ENABLE_VAR_1_SET'
fprintf(stdout, "VALUE: %d\n", ENABLE_VAR_1);
^
asdf.c:20:26: note: expanded from macro 'ENABLE_VAR_1'
#define ENABLE_VAR_1 MACRO_RESOLVE(1, SET)
^
asdf.c:18:32: note: expanded from macro 'MACRO_RESOLVE'
#define MACRO_RESOLVE(var,set) ENABLE_VAR_##var##_##set
^
<scratch space>:229:1: note: expanded from here
ENABLE_VAR_1_SET
^
1 error generated.
So it looks like SET isn't getting expanded when I define ENABLE_VAR_1.

Answer 1

Since you are trying to build a macro name, you need to do enough intermediate expansions along the way for all tokens to expand. See it live here.
#include <stdio.h>
#define PICK_SET_A
#ifdef PICK_SET_A
#define SET A
#endif
#ifdef PICK_SET_B
#define SET B
#endif
#define ENABLE_VAR_1_A 1
#define ENABLE_VAR_2_A 1
#define ENABLE_VAR_1_B 0
#define ENABLE_VAR_2_B 0
#define MACRO_RESOLVE__(M) M
#define MACRO_RESOLVE_(V, S) MACRO_RESOLVE__(ENABLE_VAR_ ## V ##_## S)
#define MACRO_RESOLVE(var,set) MACRO_RESOLVE_(var, set)
#define ENABLE_VAR_1 MACRO_RESOLVE(1, SET)
#define ENABLE_VAR_2 MACRO_RESOLVE(2, SET)
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
fprintf(stdout, "VALUE: %d\n", ENABLE_VAR_1);
return 0;
}