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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Unnecessary Macros (was Re: Unn
Message-ID: <8599@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Oct 88 04:03:43 GMT
References: <70279@sun.uucp> <225800075@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <7191@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7191@aw.sei.cmu.edu> firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
>The question is, why would anyone ever even consider writing a function
>call?  Answer: it is not only safer than the C code, it's faster.

Not necessarily, but it can be.  Also, I know of at least one compiler
that will expand a function in-line whenever it would be efficient to
do so (and when C permits it).