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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: absence of max
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 27/11/2016 17:22, asetofsymbols@gmail.com wrote:
>>> x>y?x:y
>>  max(x,y)
>> one character more
>
> max(a[i]->m.x,a[i]->m.y)
> a[i]->m.x>a[i]->m.y)?a[i]->m.x:a[i]->m.y

Not to mention all the bog standard "double evaluation of expression" caveats