Re: 23.0.50 compile problem on Windows XP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:11:03 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> In the general case, the abs macro is dangerous, as it evaluates its
> argument twice. Is it really an important optimization to use a
> macro for this?

I don't know if it's an important optimization; probably not, although
it seems to be used in the display code, where speed is important.  We
could replace it by an inline function, though.