Linus Torvalds wrote:
> MIN() is a _bad_ thing to use. It _always_ gets the sign wrong. Sorry, but
> that's how it is. It makes people think that "oh, it takes the minimum of
> two numbers" and at the same time it makes people completely forget
> signedness issues.
GCC -Wall warns about comparisons between signed and unsigned.
Is that not good enough?
-- Jamie
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