Re: INT64_MIN and _MAX

On 21/03/15 23:45, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> A couple of places (adt/timestamp.c and pgbench.c) have this:
>
> #ifndef INT64_MAX
> #define INT64_MAX INT64CONST(0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF)
> #endif
>
> #ifndef INT64_MIN
> #define INT64_MIN (-INT64CONST(0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF) - 1)
> #endif
>
> On the other hand, int8.c uses the INT64_MIN expression directly inline.
>
> On the third hand, INT64_MIN etc. would typically be defined in stdint.h
> if it exists.
>
> So wouldn't it make more sense to move these definitions into c.h and
> standardize their usage?
>

I was thinking the same when I've seen Peter's version of Numeric
abbreviations patch. So +1 for that.

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