min, max, and ANSI

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From: Kevin R. Coombes
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 16:58

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I have a question about the ANSI C header stdlib.h. A certain compiler that
shall for the moment remain nameless includes macros for min(a,b) and 
max(a,b) in <stdlib.h>. Consequently, I managed to lose several hours
trying to find out why a working program suddenly broke---eventually
discovering, of course, that I had been using min as the name of a variable,
and had changed things hwen I #included <stdlib.h> for unrelated reasons.
Are min and max SUPPOSED to be in stdlib.h, and have I been just lucky
in avoiding this problem in the past?

Kevin Coombes <krc@math.umd.edu>

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