Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> writes:

> Long long ago, the xserver's include/misc.h had:
> #define abs(a) ((a) > 0 ? (a) : -(a))
> which worked for code like this, but git history says that was removed in
> XFree86 4.3.0.1 (commit d568221710959cf in the current xserver git repo)
> and we've just been sloppy ever since.

I'm pretty sure that macro was written before there was an int abs(int i)
function in libc.

Nice catch Jeremy.

-- 
-keith

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