linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] fix abs() macro to work with types wider than int

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Message-ID: <jetzv41aot.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:05:54 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
Cc:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Richard Knutsson" <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>,
	"Jiri Bohac" <jbohac@...e.cz>, <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] fix abs() macro to work with types wider than int

"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@...logic.com> writes:

> I think this works, regardless of the length of the integers:
>
> #define abs(x) (((x)<0)?-(x):(x))

But it evaluates its argument more than once.

Andreas.

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