C builtin functions

[roy at phri.UUCP]

In article <729 at bentley.UUCP> kwh at bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
> 
> I might support the idea of additional operators [...] Binary "><" for
> min(), "<>" for max()?

	A bunch of years ago I ported the PWB (or was it v7?) C compiler to
a v6 system (turned out to be fairly trivial; bootstrapping long constants
was the only tricky part).  Much to my surprise, the lexical analyzer had
commented-out code to recognize "/\" for max and "\/" for min.  There were
even entries for these operators in the code tables.

	We never tested it out, but I think all we had to do was un-comment
a few things here and there and we would have had builtin min and max
operators in C.  I suppose it's a good thing we didn't -- talk about
non-portable code! :-)
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