exactly my attitude towards them - modern compilers will generally optimise simple functions like "min" so that they're just as efficient as macro equivalents.

exactly my attitude towards them - modern compilers will generally optimise simple functions like "min" so that they're just as efficient as macro equivalents. For example, for a project that I did, I needed specific access methods for each member of a struct, and for each method to be written with a separate function. With macros, it was as easy as defining a macro to generate said function (given the member name), and then calling said macro for each member to generate the code.