__has_include ¶The special operator __has_include (operand) may be used in
‘#if’ and ‘#elif’ expressions to test whether the header referenced
by its operand can be included using the ‘#include’ directive. Using
the operator in other contexts is not valid. The operand takes
the same form as the file in the ‘#include’ directive (see Include Syntax) and evaluates to a nonzero value if the header can be included and
to zero otherwise. Note that that the ability to include a header doesn’t
imply that the header doesn’t contain invalid constructs or ‘#error’
directives that would cause the preprocessor to fail.
The __has_include operator by itself, without any operand or
parentheses, acts as a predefined macro so that support for it can be tested
in portable code. Thus, the recommended use of the operator is as follows:
#if defined __has_include # if __has_include (<stdatomic.h>) # include <stdatomic.h> # endif #endif
The first ‘#if’ test succeeds only when the operator is supported
by the version of GCC (or another compiler) being used. Only when that
test succeeds is it valid to use __has_include as a preprocessor
operator. As a result, combining the two tests into a single expression
as shown below would only be valid with a compiler that supports the operator
but not with others that don’t.
#if defined __has_include && __has_include ("header.h") /* not portable */
…
#endif