Type of #define variables

Question

If I have:

#define MAXLINE    5000

What type is MAXLINE understood to be? Should I assume it is an int? Can I test it somehow?

Answer 1

the compiler never sees that line of code, a preprocessor runs before the actual compilation and replace those macros with their literal values, see link below for more information

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/preprocessor/