Yes, my point being that the macro in this case is an "abstraction", and we were discussing GP's claim "all abstractions bad" (i.e., to quote them, low level co

Yes, my point being that the macro in this case is an "abstraction", and we were discussing GP's claim "all abstractions bad" (i.e., to quote them, low level code should be "as least abstracted as possible"). Was it really not clear what I meant? I've actually encountered seasoned embedded devs advocating using the magic number in this very case. Never really understood why. It was some combination of "abstractions bad" and "I want to be able to check all adresses against my printed dead-tree documents while debugging "... Of course noone really believes "all abstractions bad", but I wonder why some people still claim that.