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monocasa on Dec 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died

FWIW, most large asm programs from back in the day relied heavily on macros just to have some semblance of abstraction.

WalterBright on Dec 15, 2020 [–]

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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