From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> This is one of the big problems with min and max, you get deeply suprising
> and unpleasant results if you don't consider sign propogation, sizes and
> overruns carefully. In C there are some great evils in that area, and its
> one reason a lot of people prefer to write such code explicitly.
>
Yeah, been there, bitten by that. :)
Magnus
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