macros - Check whether function is declared with C preprocessor?

Question

Is it possible to tell the C preprocessor to check whether a function (not a macro) is declared? I tried the following, but it doesn't appear to work:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
#if defined(printf)
    printf("You support printf!
");
#else
    puts("Either you don't support printf, or this test doesn't work.");
#endif
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

No. Preprocessor runs before the C compiler and the C compiler processes function declarations. The preprocessor is only there for text processing.

However, most header files have include guard macros like _STDIO_H_ that you can test for in the preprocessor stage. However, that solution is not portable as the include guard macro names are not standardized.