Is this Macro Abuse?

I was reverse engineering some code and came across this...

/************************************************************************/
/*                                                                      */
/*                          MACRO CHECK_FREAD                           */
/*                                                                      */
/*  CHECK_FREAD is used to check the status of a file read.  It         */
/*   is passed the return code from read and a string to print out if   */
/*   an error is detected.  If an error is found, an error message is   */
/*   printed out and the program terminates.  This was made into a      */
/*   macro because it had to be done over and over and over . . .       */
/*                                                                      */
/************************************************************************/

#define CHECK_FREAD(X, msg)  if (X==-1) \
                 { \
                return(DCD_BADREAD); \
                 }

Basically, the particular set of functions in this file call this whenever they do a (c-read) to check the result for an error. They also have a similar check for EOF... Basically as far as I can tell, they're doing it this way to insert returns on error in the middle of their function in a bunch of places.

e.g.

/*  Read in an 4                */
    ret_val = read(fd, &input_integer, sizeof(int32));

    CHECK_FREAD(ret_val, "reading an 4");
    CHECK_FEOF(ret_val, "reading an 4");

    if (input_integer != 4)
    {
        return(DCD_BADFORMAT);
    }

    /*  Read in the number of atoms         */
    ret_val = read(fd, &input_integer, sizeof(int32));
    *N = input_integer;

    CHECK_FREAD(ret_val, "reading number of atoms");
    CHECK_FEOF(ret_val, "reading number of atoms");

Now I'm just getting back into c/c++ programming, and I never used macro's much in the first place, but is this