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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by monocasa on Monday December 14, 2020 @05:49PM (#25424435)
FWIW, most large asm programs from back in the day relied heavily on macros just to have some semblance of abstraction.
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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by WalterBright on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:44PM (#25425564)
I know. I did, too. But over time, I used the macros less and less. More than once I've used Eric's technique to figure out exactly wtf some wretched macro was actually doing.

I also purged my own C and C++ code of macro usage.

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