diff --git a/projects/roctracer/inc/roctx.h b/projects/roctracer/inc/roctx.h
index 55baa4c0ae..9831c4bdee 100644
--- a/projects/roctracer/inc/roctx.h
+++ b/projects/roctracer/inc/roctx.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ const char* roctracer_error_string();
 
 // A marker created by given ASCII massage
 void roctxMarkA(const char* message);
-void roctxMark(const char* message) { return roctxMarkA(message); }
+#define roctxMark(message) roctxMarkA(message)
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // Ranges annotating API
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ void roctxMark(const char* message) { return roctxMarkA(message); }
 // Returns the 0 based level of a nested range being started by given message associated to this range.
 // A negative value is returned on the error.
 int roctxRangePushA(const char* message);
-int roctxRangePush(const char* message) { return roctxRangePushA(message); }
+#define roctxRangePush(message) roctxRangePushA(message)
 
 // Marks the end of a nested range.
 // A negative value is returned on the error.
diff --git a/projects/roctracer/test/MatrixTranspose_test/MatrixTranspose.cpp b/projects/roctracer/test/MatrixTranspose_test/MatrixTranspose.cpp
index 79a3845588..3a756125b2 100644
--- a/projects/roctracer/test/MatrixTranspose_test/MatrixTranspose.cpp
+++ b/projects/roctracer/test/MatrixTranspose_test/MatrixTranspose.cpp
@@ -111,21 +111,21 @@ int main() {
         // correlation reagion33
         roctracer_activity_push_external_correlation_id(33);
 
-        roctxMarkA("before hipLaunchKernel");
-        roctxRangePushA("hipLaunchKernel");
+        roctxMark("before hipLaunchKernel");
+        roctxRangePush("hipLaunchKernel");
 
         // Lauching kernel from host
         hipLaunchKernel(matrixTranspose, dim3(WIDTH / THREADS_PER_BLOCK_X, WIDTH / THREADS_PER_BLOCK_Y),
                         dim3(THREADS_PER_BLOCK_X, THREADS_PER_BLOCK_Y), 0, 0, gpuTransposeMatrix,
                         gpuMatrix, WIDTH);
 
-        roctxMarkA("after hipLaunchKernel");
+        roctxMark("after hipLaunchKernel");
 
         // correlation reagion end
         roctracer_activity_pop_external_correlation_id(NULL);
 
         // Memory transfer from device to host
-        roctxRangePushA("hipMemcpy");
+        roctxRangePush("hipMemcpy");
 
         hipMemcpy(TransposeMatrix, gpuTransposeMatrix, NUM * sizeof(float), hipMemcpyDeviceToHost);