On 5/17/07, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2007, jerry gay wrote: > good comments... but why keep both function and macro? which would you > prefer keeping over the other, and why? i can't understand why both > exist. In src/debug.c, for handling user input, I don't see any particular advantage to the macro version. The function version is easier to debug with a debugger (should that ever be necessary), makes for a (possibly) smaller object file, and can be inlined by a smart optimizing compiler anyway. For such a trivial function, these are all rather trivial differences, but you still might as well get rid of the macro.
Yes, I totally agree. A macro might be nice for simple one-liners that are called so often that a function would really slow things down. But then it would need to be called VERY often, before you notice anything on machines nowadays. kjs --
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]