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From: "Magnus Naeslund\(f\)" <mag@fbab.net>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <raybry@timesn.com>, "Tim Walberg" <twalberg@mindspring.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: macro conflict
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:29:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <043301c12c12$5519c430$020a0a0a@totalmef> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15a14h-0004YY-00@the-village.bc.nu>

From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> This is one of the big problems with min and max, you get deeply suprising
> and unpleasant results if you don't consider sign propogation, sizes and
> overruns carefully. In C there are some great evils in that area, and its
> one reason a lot of people prefer to write such code explicitly.
>


Yeah, been there, bitten by that. :)

Magnus

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-23 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-23 19:03 macro conflict J. Imlay
2001-08-23 19:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-23 19:34 ` Tim Walberg
2001-08-23 20:01   ` Alan Cox
2001-08-23 20:02   ` raybry
2001-08-23 20:16     ` Magnus Naeslund(f)
2001-08-23 20:27       ` Alan Cox
2001-08-23 20:29         ` Magnus Naeslund(f) [this message]
2001-08-23 23:18       ` Andrew Cannon
2001-08-23 23:37         ` Magnus Naeslund(f)
2001-08-23 23:35       ` Roman Zippel
2001-08-24  1:42     ` Camiel Vanderhoeven
2001-08-24 13:03 ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-24 13:15   ` Keith Owens
2001-08-24 13:17     ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-24 14:20       ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-08-24 21:17         ` Roman Zippel
2001-08-24 13:34   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-24 18:20     ` David Wagner
2001-08-24 17:25   ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-24 17:34   ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-24 18:12     ` Bill Pringlemeir

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