ABS for longs and ints

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1381 at cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM> gmaranca at cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM (Gabriel Maranca) writes:
>Does anybody know why the abs math function is not type independent? Or has
>this been changed in ANSI "C"?

That's just the way it's always been.

>I use the following macro instead of the library function:

Feel free.  Note that if its argument has side effects, funny
behavior may occur.