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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:41:04 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: chris@scary.beasts.org (Chris Evans), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minor net/core/sock.c security issue?
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Albert D. Cahalan writes:
 > Long term, __builtin_min() and __builtin_max() would be nice.

I would even avoid this, what is the signedness of their
arguments and return values?  The answer is: I don't care,
because I have to look it up.

And if I have to look it up, I know that most people _won't_ look it
up and will just guess or assume.  Most people are therefore likely to
misuse it.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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