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Q41610: Macros max and min Incorrectly Listed as Functions

Article: Q41610
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.00 5.10 | 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | docerr | mspl13_c
Last Modified: 16-MAY-1989

Page 181, section 8.3.2 of the "Microsoft C 5.1 Optimizing Compiler
User's Guide" incorrectly lists max and min as functions that have
intrinsic forms.

As correctly noted in the "Microsoft C 5.1 Optimizing Compiler
Run-Time Library Reference" on Pages 413 and 429, max and min are
macros defined in the include file stdlib.h.

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