Jan> Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se&gt; writes: Jan> That doesn't work. A lot of the macros must be macros because they Jan> mess with the types. They are really more templates than inline Jan> functions. I have to admit that I haven't looked at the macros[1] so I believe what you say. However, can't you do all kinds of weird casting to get a function to mess with the types in the same way? I still haven't looked at the macros, so if I'm way off base, just say so. Ray Footnotes: [1] The last time I really delved into the xemacs source code was years ago and my head still hurts from trying to wade through the mass of ifdefs to find out how to fix the code (for Linux).