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Not necessarily. Macros provide for a way to transform text into other text, what's bad is the usage of macros that some people do.

With macros you could do this, in C++:

synchronized(object)
{
// Atomic operations here
}

Just like in java, and it would be totally legal C++, provided the macro synchronized expanded to something like this:

#define synchronized(o) for((o).Lock(); (o).isLocked(); (o).unLock())

Where o would be an object of a class exposing the Lock/isLocked/unLock methods. If a class inherited from a, say, synchronizable class implementing those methods, you would be able to do

someclass::somemethod()
{
synchronized(*this)
{
// bla bla bla
}
}


Which would be the equivalent of a synchronized method in the Java language.



You can have range checking in C++, you just need to either implement it in a class of your own or use some of the already existing classes.



You can have managed memory handling in C++ as well.