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    SubjectRe: 2.4.9 does not compile [PATCH]
    Hi,

    Thanks for the reply, but...

    At 02:46 17/08/2001, Jeff Dike wrote:
    >aia21@cam.ac.uk said:
    > > Really? Could you point out an example where using ... typeof(x) __x;
    > > typeof(y) __y; ... in the macros wouldn't work? - I just tried a few
    > > examples I thought wouldn't work (side-effects ones) but I was
    > > pleasantly surprised to that gcc always produced the exact same
    > > assembler output for both the 3 arg and the 2 arg + typeof macros.
    >
    >Try min(a, min(b, c)). Look at the cpp expansion and notice all the variable
    >name clashes.

    There are no clashes; unless my knowledge of C has abandoned me at the
    moment, you can reuse variable names within local statement blocks and the
    compiler is intelligent enough to sort it out.

    I tried egcs-1.1.2/gcc-2.91.66, gcc 2.95.3 (SuSE 7.1) and gcc 2.96 (RHL 7.1
    2.96-85) and the generated assembler is fully correct with all these
    compilers for follwing little test (I compiled it with the same gcc command
    line as the kernel uses for the ntfs source files):

    --- cut ---
    #define min(x,y) \
    ({ typeof(x) __x = (x); typeof(y) __y = (y); __x < __y ? __x : __y; })

    int test(int a, int b, int c)
    {
    return min(a, min(b, c));
    }
    --- cut ---

    No warnings are emitted and the assembler is correct if I am not mistaken.

    Is my test invalid? I guess I must be missing something, but I can't figure
    out what. )-: Perhaps sleeping over it might help...

    >We went through this on #kernel one night, and Alan concocted some amazingly
    >gross unique identifier generators as a result. To me, this looks like the
    >best way to do this.

    Shame I missed that... </me really ignorant> which IRC network is this
    channel on? Doesn't seem to be on openprojects.net...

    Best regards,

    Anton


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