From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAX.3, MIN.3: New page (and link page) to document MAX() and MIN()
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 15:39:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <688adf87-e108-b4dd-66dd-ae9c4d7afdf8@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b09b67a5-2006-62b7-13fc-1930b34e848b@gmail.com>
On 5/12/21 3:32 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> In which case they might not be evaluated at all? I'm curious.
> Maybe if one of the arguments is literal NAN and the implementation
> raises an exception for it?
Or, one argument of MIN might be negative and the other might be
unsigned short. In that case, the unsigned short argument need not be
evaluated at all. Admittedly not something we'd be likely to optimize
for, but the documentation shouldn't preclude such optimization.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-12 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-12 20:43 Alejandro Colomar
2021-05-12 20:56 ` [PATCH v2] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-05-12 20:59 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-05-12 21:17 ` [PATCH] " Paul Eggert
2021-05-12 22:32 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-05-12 22:39 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2021-05-12 22:51 ` [PATCH v3] MAX.3, MIN.3: New pages " Alejandro Colomar
2021-06-12 8:35 ` Ping: " Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-06-20 2:39 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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