But isn’t it bad practice? Like, isn’t it seen evil when you often use them? Especially because they are hard to debug? (I can’t watch the video currently)
I think it depends, trivial min() and max() style functions are very common and considered acceptable, though I guess you could have been using inline for the last two decades…
The only time I got any serious usage out of preproc functions was writing a driver for an AT-command set cellular modem which involved writing a ton of repetitive code for each AT command.
I think I would prefer this sort of content in wrtten form though, cause I do it so seldom, I always need to look up syntactic specials like ‘stringizing’ where I even tend to forget the names of the concepts :)
Sure. So? If the compiler feels it’s more efficient not to inline, who am I to judge? As far as I know there’s nothing keeping the compiler from recognizing repetitive code generated by macros and factoring out into a single assembly routine…
But isn’t it bad practice? Like, isn’t it seen evil when you often use them? Especially because they are hard to debug? (I can’t watch the video currently)
I think it depends, trivial
min()andmax()style functions are very common and considered acceptable, though I guess you could have been usinginlinefor the last two decades…The only time I got any serious usage out of preproc functions was writing a driver for an AT-command set cellular modem which involved writing a ton of repetitive code for each AT command.
I think I would prefer this sort of content in wrtten form though, cause I do it so seldom, I always need to look up syntactic specials like ‘stringizing’ where I even tend to forget the names of the concepts :)
Isn’t
inlinetechnically just a suggestion to the compiler though? It’s not necessarily guaranteed to inline it.Sure. So? If the compiler feels it’s more efficient not to inline, who am I to judge? As far as I know there’s nothing keeping the compiler from recognizing repetitive code generated by macros and factoring out into a single assembly routine…