Re: [PATCH] Add arithmetic builtin functions

Pete Dietl wrote:

> Here I submit to you a patch that adds the following builtin functions
> to make: `add` (addition), `sub` (subtraction), `mul`
> (multiplication), `div` (division), `mod` (modulus), `max` (maximum),
> `min` (minimum), and `abs` (absolute value). The implementation I
> provide supports both integers and floats with promotions from integer
> to float when appropriate (an operation where at least one argument is
> a float causes the other argument to be promoted to a float and the
> result to be a float).

This would be nice, but...

> +#define generic_math_op(a, b, op)                                             \
> +  ((void)sizeof (                                                             \
> +       char[__builtin_types_compatible_p (typeof (a), typeof (b)) ? 1 : -1]), \
> +   _Generic ((a),                                                             \
> +       double: generic_math_op_double,                                        \
> +       long long int: generic_math_op_ll) (a, b, op))

this is some GNU-C-ism that wont compile with MSVC.

> +static char *
> +func_add (char *o, char **argv, const char *funcname)
> +{
> +  struct number n = perform_math_op (
> +      op_add, funcname,
> +      (struct math_operation_init){ .init_type = t_constant, .constant = 0 },
> +      argv);

Not sure about such inline 'structs'.

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