Chapter 2. Preprocessor (PRE)
Recommendations and Rules
Risk Assessment Summary
Related Rules and Recommendations
PRE00-C. Prefer inline or static functions to function-like macros
Macros are dangerous because their use resembles that of real functions, but they have different semantics. C99 adds inline functions to the C programming language. Inline functions should be preferred over macros when they can be used interchangeably. Making a function ...
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