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I have an embedded system application where I need to strip strings in calls
to printfs from my code, and replace it with a common string.  This may sound
ugly, but it is necessary to reduce the size of the code space.

What I want to do is this:

char fixed_text = "error occured\n"
#define printf(a,...) printf(fixed_text)

Or perhaps even:
#define printf(a,...) 

I'd really like to avoid having my code populated with something ugly like

#ifdef STRINGS_REMOVED
	;
#else
	printf("An error message\n");
#endif


Is there a known, portable mechanism for doing this?  (If not, then how about
an ugly kludge that works for the GNU compilers?)

			-Rob
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  MIT Lincoln Laboratory                              Boston University
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