Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war

[Daniel Phillips]

On August 28, 2001 05:14 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'll show you a real example from drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c:
> 
> 	min(host->scsi.SCp.this_residual, DMAC_BUFFER_SIZE / 2);
> 
> this_residual is "int", and "DMAC_BUFFER_SIZE" is just a #define for
> an integer constant. So the above is actually a signed comparison, and
> I'll bet you that was not what the author intended.
> 
> Now, this_residual is hopefully never negative, so it doesn't matter.

    min(host->scsi.SCp.this_residual, (unsigned) DMAC_BUFFER_SIZE / 2);

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Daniel