macro

If you're using C++, the short answer is: don't.

Macros have a habit of biting you badly when you least expect it. They're hard to debug and often have unexpected effects. An inline function is almost always better than a macro.

As for your question: have you explored the possibility of looking up "max" in the standard library?

Search through your compiler's #include directories until you find
max. It's in one of them... Anyway, the C++ version of max is
typically a templatized function that looks something like this:

template <typename T>
T max(const T& lhs, const T& rhs)
{
return (lhs > rhs ? lhs : rhs);
}

Er ... that's just what I'm assuming anyway. I didn't look it up and
my Josuttis book is at work :)

--Paul

Paul: you just got in before me. I was trying to lead the OP along the lines of looking these things up. Without trying to be offensive to anyone, max() is such a fundamentally trivial function that I feel the OP is better served by us leading him to find the answer rather than just giving it straight. Others may disagree, but that's my take on it.

Originally posted by Graham
Paul: you just got in before me. I was trying to lead the OP along the lines of looking these things up. Without trying to be offensive to anyone, max() is such a fundamentally trivial function that I feel the OP is better served by us leading him to find the answer rather than just giving it straight. Others may disagree, but that's my take on it.

Yeah, I kind of implied that he should look it up too. I was just
doing that max freehand so I didn't really consider it um ...
official or anything. For that, I'd expect him to look it up. I don't
think I've ever seen max(), but that's what I'd expect it to look
like...

Perhaps I should have said in my post that that was MY version
of max() so he'd have incentive to go look it up :)

--Paul