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From: moore%cdr.utah.edu@wasatch.utah.edu (Tim Moore)
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Subject: Re: C macros (was comma operator:  keep away?)
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Date: 26 Apr 89 04:44:31 GMT
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In article <17109@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
}...  What is missing from C (for operations like
}getchar and putchar) is not better macros, but rather inline functions.
}Inline functions behave exactly like true functions, with the exception
}that they may not be recursive,

Inline functions can be tail recursive.


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