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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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The Nature of M4 Macros

If you've been programming in C for many years, you've no doubt run across a few C-preprocessor macros from the dark regions of the lower realm. I'm talking about those truly evil macros that expand into one or two pages of C code. They should have been written as C functions, but their authors were either overly worried about performance or just got carried away, and now it's your turn to debug and maintain them. But, as any veteran C programmer will tell you, the slight performance gains you get by using a macro where you should have used a function do not justify the trouble you cause maintainers trying to debug your fancy macros. Debugging such macros can be a nightmare because the source code generated by macros is ...

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