Macros Versus Functions

#define min(x,y) \

( ( (x)<(y) )?(x):(y) )

• After this definition, the preprocessor replaces every occurrence of the form

  min(a,b)
  

with the replacement text

( ( (a)<(b) )?(a):(b) )

where a and b can be ANY text.

Macros are not functions. There are no arguments passing, or return value to talk about.

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