[postgis-devel] strange behavoir of LW_ABS

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

nicklas.aven at jordogskog.no wrote:

>  From your description Mark I see that putting the -sign outside the 
> parenteses in the macro eliminates this risk:
> #define LW_ABS(a)   ((a) < (0) ? -(a) : (a))
>  
> then it works as I want :-)

FWIW changing the macro as indicated above doesn't seem to break 
anything in my tests, so I've applied this change to SVN trunk. Thanks 
for the report and the fix.


ATB.

Mark.

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