Re: Changes in GC and in pure space

[Angelo Graziosi]

Eli Zaretskii wrote
>
> If some platforms don't support it, and these macros
> become non-inline functions, those platforms will be punished by this
> kind of changes
>
> [...] But that's me.
>

Me too! 

When I was a kid I was taught that macros are preferable to functions if these 
are short, don't use loop etc., and this to save on the cost of the function 
call.. also old FORTRAN has 'statement functions'. If I remember correctly, 
even if language as C++ has 'inline' statement, this does not mean that the 
function will be really 'inlined', is the compiler that decide about the fate 
of functions declared 'inline'..

Maybe all I learned from Borland manuals was wrong... and all programs I wrote 
up to 2004 have to be rewritten..... Gulp!