Linux-wireless: why use macro to call functions

[Adrian Ratnapala]

> So the main (or only?) purpose of the macro is to save

Better to say it saves cutting and pasting, which is  a damn good
thing -- even if macros are an old fashioned way of doing it.

> in terms of functionality I could equivalently call each handlers.

But then you would have to call them repeatedly inside a loop and
check for errors in the same way as is done in the macro.  Not just
call the function.


On 24 December 2013 13:19, Fred Chou <fred.chou.nd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch
> <bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
> [...]
>> And the macro just avoids to copy-paste identical lines/logic.
>
> Thank you all for the explanation. Originally I was wondering if there could
> be some other reasons. So the main (or only?) purpose of the macro is to
> save some typing, and in terms of functionality I could equivalently call
> each handlers.
>
> Fred
>
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