Re: small patch for pty.c

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 10:11:31 EST


"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said:

[...]

> Shouldn't the macro be fixed (if broken)? MIN is used a lot in the
> source. Several years ago I made one in which the input parameters were
> not evaluated twice and it was __static__ __inline__. This was not
> accepted, perhaps it's time?

An inline function call will cast it's arguments to the type given. This
isn't right if somebody wants to get MIN(unsigned, unsigned) and others
want MIN(int, int).

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