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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:13:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
>     min(host->scsi.SCp.this_residual, (unsigned) DMAC_BUFFER_SIZE / 2);

Sure.

If you put the type information explicitly, you can get it right.

Which is, btw, _exactly_ why the min() function takes the type explicitly.

		Linus