On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Øyvind Harboe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do we really want to go down the path of macros?

Yes. The ifs obscure the actual algorithm by turning a short one-line
function call into five lines of (dense) operator soup with the actual
action lost somewhere in between.


> There are two audiences for this code:
>
> - those that work on the code all the time
> - the casual reader/debugger
>
> For the second group, the code is not less readable.

I disagree. Unless what you are trying to read is the syntactic sugar
rather than the actual algorithm.

> The ARM11 code has a lot of strange microconstructs that I have to decode
> when I take on the hat of the second group....

If CHECK_RETVAL isn't clear enough, feel free to suggest a better name.


Michael
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