Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Unnecessary Macros (was Re: Unnecessary Parenthesis)
Message-ID: <1674@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 30 Sep 88 22:39:27 GMT
References: <2089@ssc-vax.UUCP> <441@kaon.uchicago.edu> <1401@devsys.oakhill.UUCP> <8813@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
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In article <8813@ihlpb.ATT.COM>, nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber) writes:
> What is really wanted is to be able to declare macros so that it would have
> the same semantics as an inlined function would (somewhat like C++
> inlining, except that type checking would not be done on the arguments.

I don't know how C++ inlining works but one of the long-standing things
on my wishlist is:

inline putc(c, fp)
char c;
FILE *fp;
{
	if(--fp->_cnt >= 0)
		*fp->ptr++ = c;
	else
		_flsbuf(c, fp);
}
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