Why are C macros not type-safe?

Question

If have encountered this claim multiple times and can\'t figure out what it is supposed to mean. Since the resulting code is compiled using a regular C compiler it will end up b

Answer 1

Well they're not directly type-safe... I suppose in certain scenarios/usages you could argue they can be indirectly (i.e. resulting code) type-safe. But you could certainly create a macro intended for integers and pass it strings... the pre-processor handling the macros certainly doesn't care. The compiler may choke on it, depending on usage...