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Can anyone explain the advantage of macros like this, rather than just using an `inline function`? Is it because C doesn't have generics?

• dalke 12y ago
  Yes, exactly that.
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• _delirium 12y ago
  In older C, people tended to be unwilling to trust the compiler's ability to inline functions, so there was a lot of use of macros to avoid small repeated function calls.