On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 21:04:24 +0100, Jörg Krause wrote: > I wouldn't say that macros are basically evil. They are used heavily in > embedded systems.
This usage of macros is an overly pessimistic, premature optimization which basically assumes you've got the dumbest compiler ever which can't even inline a single "return expr;" statement. And premature optimization *is* quite evil (maybe not quite the root of all of it, but is sure does cause a lot of pain). > And you can do some nice things like stringification. Well, that's one thing that macros can do that C can't, so I can see a use case there, but this is not one of those instances. --Ben _______________________________________________ mpd-devel mailing list mpd-devel@musicpd.org http://mailman.blarg.de/listinfo/mpd-devel
