Thanks for letting me know, I try to use the macros as little as possible, but there are such things as platform-specific code, compiler differences, third-party libraries, standard libraries such as WinAPI and legacy code.

Platform-specific code is a very good use that precluded me at 1 o'clock this morning.

I tend to wrap legacy code in a C++ wrapper if I can; allowing me to code to a C++ idiomed API, rather than the choice of that particular developer. More often than not, it adds no overhead through the use of inlined functions...