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-> From David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> :
> 
> huaz@cs.columbia.edu said:
> >  Doesn't it add more overhead?  I think using inline functions are
> > much better. 
> 
> Why should it add overhead? Even the most na?ve compiler ought to generate 
> the same code, surely? I must admit I haven't looked hard at the output - 
> it didn't even occur to me that it might produce suboptimal code.

right, gcc -O2 does produce the same code (but -O does not).

> 
> >  Yes you have to define it for different types (char, short, int,
> > long,  signed/unsigned). 
> 
> Unfortunately, this being C means that you can't call them all by the same 
> name. If I have to use unsigned_long_max(x,y) I'd rather type it out myself 
> :)

Oops, I must be sleeping at that time :-)
 
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> dwmw2
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