Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war
David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:17:22 +0100
ionut@cs.columbia.edu said:
> ... unless of course the programmer used an unsigned char when what he
> really wanted was a signed char. But in that case even your typed min
> macro won't save him, because what should the forced type be anyway?
> If it's "int", nothing changes; if it's "signed char", you risk
> truncating the int. So you end up with something like
> min(int, a, (char)b)
If the programmer wrote that when he really wanted a signed char, he has
more fundamental brokenness to worry about than the min/max fun.
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dwmw2
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