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

[David Weinehall]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:16:47PM +0000, Graham Murray wrote:
> Daniel Phillips <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > More than anything, it shows that education is needed, not macro patch-ups.
> > We have exactly the same issues with < and >, should we introduce 
> > three-argument macros to replace them?
> 
> Would it not have been much more "obvious" if the rules for
> unsigned/signed integer comparisons (irrespective of the widths
> involved) were
> 
> 1) If the signed element is negative then it is always less than the
>    unsigned element.
> 
> 2) If the unsigned element is greater than then maximum positive value
>    expressible by the signed one then it is always greater.
> 
> 3) Only if both values are positive and within the range of the
>    smaller element are the actual values compared. 

Possibly, but changing the C specification is not really an option here...

/David Weinehall
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