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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:14:02 +0100
From: Mark Zealey <mark@itsolve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:06:22AM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

>     #define LINE(x,y) x##y
>     ...
>     LINE(unsafe_min_or_max_at_line_,__LINE__)()

Hmm, that doesn't work here, but I think the asm one would work better anyway.

>   #define stringify(x) #x
>   asm(".unsafe_use_of_min_or_max_at_line_" stringify(__LINE__))

Yep, I missed this. The following will work:

#define _S(x) #x
#define S(x) x
asm(".error_with_min_or_max_at_line_" S(__LINE__))

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