From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To:	bhodge AT gpu2 DOT srv DOT ualberta DOT ca, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Borland library macro equivalent?
Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:51:34 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID:	<9610251551.aa07674@ailin.inti.edu.ar>

Hi Blaine:

>Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
>:      #define max(a,b) ({ typeof(a) _tmp_a = (a); \
>:                          typeof(b) _tmp_b = (b); \
>:                          (_tmp_a > _tmp_b) ? _tmp_a : _tmp_b; })

>So then the following code would be legal?

>x={ int s, c; s=sin(a); c=cos(a); s*s*y+s*c*y+c*c*y; };

>Is this legal under other languages tooor is it just a DJGPP specific
>thing?

>(Don't rack your brain to hard at what it does, I just came up with a
>random example :-)

The not standard thing in the first example is the typeof(a) used to declare 
the var (I could be wrong).

SET

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