side-effects/type safe min/max (Was Re: [1/3] d3dx9: Partial implementation of D3DXAssembleShader function. [try 2])

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Henri Verbeet wrote:
> On 5 February 2010 18:19, Matteo Bruni  wrote:
> > Sure. Better to go with something like "len = len < (desc->size -
> > desc->pos) ? len : desc->size - desc->pos" or creating a "min"
> > function?
>
> min and max are already defined in windef.h. Note that they're not
> safe for expressions with side-effects, but for simple expressions
> like the one here they're ok.

We can lift the side-effects and type safe min/max macros from the Linux
Kernel. Of course Alexandre would have to accept the use of typeof(); we
can do a fallback for the compilers that don't support that.

bye
    michael