The C Standard, 7.1.4 paragraph 1, states [ISO/IEC 9899:2011] :states
Any function declared in a header may be additionally implemented as a function-like macro defined in the header, so if a library function is declared explicitly when its header is included, one of the techniques shown below can be used to ensure the declaration is not affected by such a macro. Any macro definition of a function can be suppressed locally by enclosing the name of the function in parentheses, because the name is then not followed by the left parenthesis that indicates expansion of a macro function name. For the same syntactic reason, it is permitted to take the address of a library function even if it is also defined as a macro.185
185) This means that an implementation shall provide an actual function for each library function, even if it also provides a macro for that function.
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