Moving the kernel to modern C

Posted Mar 4, 2022 17:02 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Moving the kernel to modern C by dvdeug
Parent article: Moving the kernel to modern C

> > That's the same reason why many developers perfer to use upper case for macros. It's a signal that you should look it up and that it might evaluate your arguments more than once, for example.

> Why can developers be trusted with macros and not operator overloading?

They can't with either. No one likes the pre-processor. It's always seen as a necessary evil to work around C's limitations. Macros are subject to especially high review scrutiny and new ones can be introduced only if they solve a very generic problem and only when they are used all across the board (which ensures a lot of test coverage).