Unfortunately that's not possible in the case of virStrcpyStatic(). Because virStrcpyStatic() does a sizeof(dest), you have to have the original char foo[123], not a char *, to get something meaningful. That means that it has to either be a macro or not exist at all. (I could be convinced of the latter, but I found it convenient when converting a number of these locations)
I could make virStrcpy a small function, though.
Yes, that would be quite nice. It would remove the multiple-evaluation problem from virStrcpyStatic too. In the followup I'd also like to have macro arguments parenthesized: #define virStrcpyStatic(dest, src) \ virStrcpy((dest), (src), sizeof(dest)) I don't remember off the top of my head the case in which that would be a problem (since these are just function arguments), but I'm sure Jim Meyering could enlighten us. ;-) Paolo