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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: swap() macro
Message-ID: <1005@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Jun-86 14:30:23 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 22 14:30:23 1986
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In article <2595@ism780c.UUCP>, geoff@ism780c.UUCP (Geoff Kimbrough) writes:
>I *don't* think this macro should be *used*, since it's got to be slower to
>do all the extra pointer chasing and such than to break up your statement
>into  {  swap(*a,*b); a++; b++; }.  If you're concerned about having to
>insert extra braces, I don't even want to tadc tg qgu   0V! !$ A bust ggtt`rgug` readafg af eftaredq ufcgeeefted prggrae wat`2w`ade   sgeet`afg )(/*(<--(no(kurly brace */

Hey, try taking the bubble gum out of your mouth when you post :-).

>		if ( whatever ) {
>			hundreds of statements on several pages;
>			with 8 space tabs, the code dissappeared off the
>			right margin, and gradually walked back, until:
>		}
>	/* <-- no curly here either */
>Took me over an hour just to confirm that the braces matched up.

What does this have to do with swap() macro?
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