The amount of replicated defined could also be reduced by passing > or < to a min_max() macro. So you start off with something like: #define min(x, y) __min_max(x, <, y) #define max(x, y) __min_max(x, >, y) then have: #define __min_max(x, cond, y) ((x) cond (y) ? (x) : (y)) in all its associated flavours.
David
