// vi:set ft=cpp: -*- Mode: C++ -*-
/*
 * (c) 2008-2009 Alexander Warg <warg@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
 *     economic rights: Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
 *
 * This file is part of TUD:OS and distributed under the terms of the
 * GNU General Public License 2.
 * Please see the COPYING-GPL-2 file for details.
 *
 * As a special exception, you may use this file as part of a free software
 * library without restriction.  Specifically, if other files instantiate
 * templates or use macros or inline functions from this file, or you compile
 * this file and link it with other files to produce an executable, this
 * file does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by
 * the GNU General Public License.  This exception does not however
 * invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by
 * the GNU General Public License.
 */
#pragma once

/**
 * \ingroup cxx_api
 * \brief Various kinds of C++ utilities.
 */
namespace cxx
{
  /**
   * \ingroup cxx_api
   * \brief Get the minimum of \a a and \a b.
   * \param a the first value.
   * \param b the second value.
   */
  template< typename T1 >
  inline
  T1 min(T1 a, T1 b)
  { return a < b ? a : b; }

  /**
   * \ingroup cxx_api
   * \brief Get the maximum of \a a and \a b.
   * \param a the first value.
   * \param b the second value.
   */
  template< typename T1 >
  inline
  T1 max(T1 a, T1 b)
  { return a > b ? a : b; }
};