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 :)
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…
I think it depends, trivial
min()
andmax()
style functions are very common and considered acceptable, though I guess you could have been usinginline
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 :)
Isn’t
inline
technically just a suggestion to the compiler though? It’s not necessarily guaranteed to inline it.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…