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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: SWAP macro
Message-ID: <857@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 20:45:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.857
Posted: Fri Jun 27 20:45:19 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Jun-86 00:52:15 EDT
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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And then again, there's always this sort of thing (look in 4.2's
/usr/include/sys/mbuf.h for a strong precedent):

#define swap(x,y,t) { \
			t *p1 = &(x), *p2 = &(y), tmp; \
 \
			tmp = *p1; \
			*p1 = *p2; \
			*p2 = tmp; \
		}

which is called with something like:

	swap(x,y,double);

really not a bad thing (or is it too much bother for the programmer to
know what type s/he is working with?)  Still doesn't work with
registers of course (but I don't think typeof() would solve that
problem either.) Also, pointer types would have to be typedef'd to be
useful as swap(x,y,char *) would not quite work (but w/ a typedef
it works fine.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University