Re: linux-2.5 min()/max() macros generate warnings with gcc-3.0.4and gcc-3.2

[Matthew Wilcox <willy at debian dot org>]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 01:03:42AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This is reproducible at least with egcs 2.91.66 (RH kgcc), gcc 2.95.2
> (caldera-patches), gcc 2.95.3 (SuSE), gcc 2.95.4 (Debian-prerelease) and
> various versions of gcc 2.96-rh.

And with gcc 2.7.2 (Debian's gcc272 package).  I think this has been a de
facto part of gnu89 since at least 1997.

> We kernel developers switching to gcc 3.x now would be verry happy if
> you could bring it back in line with those compilers for gnu89 mode.

I think it's worth moving towards gnu99 compatibility anyway.  Of course,
while gcc 3.x remains so slow, egcs 2.91 compatibility is more important.

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