Subject: Re: bug#13419: make 'eabs' act more like a function

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:41:11 -0800

On 01/12/2013 04:26 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>   #define eabs(x) imaxabs (x)
> But then it's not inlined, right?

No, it's inlined, if the compiler's any good.
GCC inlines it, for example.  So it is a cleaner
and efficient replacement for what Emacs has now.