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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:47:38 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] kernel.h: Introduce const_max() for VLA removal
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Well, the explicit typing allows that mixing, in that you can just
> have "const_max_t(5,sizeof(x))"

I obviously meant "const_max_t(size_t,5,sizeof(x))". Heh.

                Linus