C macros (was comma operator: keep away?)
Tim Moore
moore%cdr.utah.edu at wasatch.utah.edu
Wed Apr 26 14:44:31 AEST 1989
In article <17109 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
}... What is missing from C (for operations like
}getchar and putchar) is not better macros, but rather inline functions.
}Inline functions behave exactly like true functions, with the exception
}that they may not be recursive,
Inline functions can be tail recursive.
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