Type-independent absolute value

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <3497 at solo10.cs.vu.nl>, maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:

|  Why?  I can understand `-x' isn't a good idea, but `-(x)' seems OK to me.

  I may be overly paranoid about semibroken compilers. In macros I try
to use enough parens to cover anything I might ever use, on any compiler
however poor. I had nothing special in mind, just CYA.
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