Re: [Bug-gnulib] MIN, MAX and ABS (second)

[Paul Eggert]

Oskar Liljeblad <address@hidden> writes:

> It is very rare that you require SOME argument to MIN/MAX be
> evaluated twice.

I agree.  It's a mistake for code to require that.

> the mistake of assuming that the arguments to MIN/MAX are only
> evaluated once is more common...

But that is also a mistake, since MIN and MAX have to evaluate
their arguments multiple times on non-GCC hosts, even before
today's patch was installed.

Users of MIN and MAX just have to be careful to pass arguments
that are free of harmful side effects.