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  57. <span id="Function_002dlike-Macros-1"></span><h3 class="section">3.2 Function-like Macros</h3>
  58. <span id="index-function_002dlike-macros"></span>
  59. <p>You can also define macros whose use looks like a function call. These
  60. are called <em>function-like macros</em>. To define a function-like macro,
  61. you use the same &lsquo;<samp>#define</samp>&rsquo; directive, but you put a pair of
  62. parentheses immediately after the macro name. For example,
  63. </p>
  64. <div class="example">
  65. <pre class="example">#define lang_init() c_init()
  66. lang_init()
  67. &rarr; c_init()
  68. </pre></div>
  69. <p>A function-like macro is only expanded if its name appears with a pair
  70. of parentheses after it. If you write just the name, it is left alone.
  71. This can be useful when you have a function and a macro of the same
  72. name, and you wish to use the function sometimes.
  73. </p>
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  75. <pre class="example">extern void foo(void);
  76. #define foo() /* <span class="roman">optimized inline version</span> */
  77. &hellip;
  78. foo();
  79. funcptr = foo;
  80. </pre></div>
  81. <p>Here the call to <code>foo()</code> will use the macro, but the function
  82. pointer will get the address of the real function. If the macro were to
  83. be expanded, it would cause a syntax error.
  84. </p>
  85. <p>If you put spaces between the macro name and the parentheses in the
  86. macro definition, that does not define a function-like macro, it defines
  87. an object-like macro whose expansion happens to begin with a pair of
  88. parentheses.
  89. </p>
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  91. <pre class="example">#define lang_init () c_init()
  92. lang_init()
  93. &rarr; () c_init()()
  94. </pre></div>
  95. <p>The first two pairs of parentheses in this expansion come from the
  96. macro. The third is the pair that was originally after the macro
  97. invocation. Since <code>lang_init</code> is an object-like macro, it does not
  98. consume those parentheses.
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