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$DECR: Decrement a macro‘$DECR(N)’ redefines the numeric macro N to be one less than its previous value. (If N does not simplify to a number, an error results.) In other words, in the language of C the effect is to say ‘N--’.
The two-argument form ‘$DECR(N,m)’ executes the equivalent of ‘N -= m’.