On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> "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).
> --
They why did you just post a response that does just that by using
gcc's 'typeof' ?
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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