Programmatic way to get variable name in C?

Question

I am developing a tool to dump data from variables. I need to dump the variable name, and also the values.

My solution: Store variable name as a string, and print th

Answer 1

Despite the very precise answer from @Matt Joiner, I wanna write a full short code exemplifying this just to see how simple it is using #define macro

#include 
#define dump(v)printf("%s",#v);
int main()
    {
    char a;
    dump(a);
    }

output: a