From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:27:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:27:31 -0400 Received: from mail.fbab.net ([212.75.83.8]:23816 "HELO mail.fbab.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:27:21 -0400 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: mag@fbab.net via mail.fbab.net X-Qmail-Scanner-Rcpt-To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk raybry@timesn.com twalberg@mindspring.com linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Qmail-Scanner: 0.94 (No viruses found. Processed in 5.65743 secs) Message-ID: <043301c12c12$5519c430$020a0a0a@totalmef> From: "Magnus Naeslund\(f\)" To: "Alan Cox" Cc: , "Tim Walberg" , In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: macro conflict Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:29:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Alan Cox" > 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Programmer/Networker [|] Magnus Naeslund PGP Key: http://www.genline.nu/mag_pgp.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-