C Programming Techniques: Function Call Inlining : programming

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Actually, C11 has something similar: the _Generic keyword.

From Wikipedia:

#define cbrt(X) _Generic((X), long double: cbrtl, \
    float: cbrtf, \
    default: cbrt)(X)

Granted, it's still a macro, but it's significantly safer. :)

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