• a2800276@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I think it depends, trivial min() and max() style functions are very common and considered acceptable, though I guess you could have been using inline for the last two decades…

    The only time I got any serious usage out of preproc functions was writing a driver for an AT-command set cellular modem which involved writing a ton of repetitive code for each AT command.

    I think I would prefer this sort of content in wrtten form though, cause I do it so seldom, I always need to look up syntactic specials like ‘stringizing’ where I even tend to forget the names of the concepts :)

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      2 years ago

      Isn’t inline technically just a suggestion to the compiler though? It’s not necessarily guaranteed to inline it.

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        2 years ago

        Sure. So? If the compiler feels it’s more efficient not to inline, who am I to judge? As far as I know there’s nothing keeping the compiler from recognizing repetitive code generated by macros and factoring out into a single assembly routine…