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What are the differences between macros and inline functions?

• Macros are not compiler dependent, they are definite to be replaced in place of the macro call, but inline is just a request to the compiler compiler for placing the function inline, it may be ignored if it doesn't meet the compilers requirement for inlining.
• Type checking is not done for macro calls, where as for inline functions, full type checking is done as for any other functions.
• Macros can get evaluated more than once if its replaced with another macro constant, but this is not the case with inline functions.
• The inline function arguments (such as i++) are evaluated before the call to function is made, but macro just replaces the argument as it is being given.