1// vi:set ft=cpp: -*- Mode: C++ -*-
2/*
3 * (c) 2008-2009 Alexander Warg <warg@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
4 *     economic rights: Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
5 *
6 * This file is part of TUD:OS and distributed under the terms of the
7 * GNU General Public License 2.
8 * Please see the COPYING-GPL-2 file for details.
9 *
10 * As a special exception, you may use this file as part of a free software
11 * library without restriction.  Specifically, if other files instantiate
12 * templates or use macros or inline functions from this file, or you compile
13 * this file and link it with other files to produce an executable, this
14 * file does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by
15 * the GNU General Public License.  This exception does not however
16 * invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by
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18 */
19#pragma once
20
21/**
22 * \ingroup cxx_api
23 * \brief Various kinds of C++ utilities.
24 */
25namespace cxx
26{
27  /**
28   * \ingroup cxx_api
29   * \brief Get the minimum of \a a and \a b.
30   * \param a the first value.
31   * \param b the second value.
32   */
33  template< typename T1 >
34  inline
35  T1 min(T1 a, T1 b)
36  { return a < b ? a : b; }
37
38  /**
39   * \ingroup cxx_api
40   * \brief Get the maximum of \a a and \a b.
41   * \param a the first value.
42   * \param b the second value.
43   */
44  template< typename T1 >
45  inline
46  T1 max(T1 a, T1 b)
47  { return a > b ? a : b; }
48};
49