Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Well, i'm no expert in c, but i guess

> max(++x, y)

> would cause problems.

  Yes, that's the big problem.
  Another minor problem is caused by the exact same reason: If you have
complicated statements as parameters to that "function", they will be
evaluated twice, thus producing inefficient code.

  If you want to make the min() and max() functions in C++, the correct
way is to use templates. The result will be the same, but without the
mentioned problems (yes, compilers do a very good job when inlining this
type of functions and all temporary local variables will simply be gone).

template<typename T>
inline T max(const T& a, const T& b)
{
    return a > b ? a : b;
}

  (This is most probably how it's implemented in the STL, although there
*might* be some optimization as well...)

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