The changes to minmax.h that changed the type check to a signedness check significantly increased the length of the expansion. In some cases it has also significantly increased compile type. This is particularly noticable for nested expansions. The fact that _Static_assert() only requires a compile time constant not a constant expression allows a lot of simplification. The other thing that compilicates the expansion is the necessity of returning a constant expression from constant arguments (for VLA). I can only find a handful of places this is done. Penalising most of the code for these few cases seems 'suboptimal'. Instead I've added min_const() and max_const() for VLA and static initialisers, these check the arguments are constant to avoid misuse. Patch [9] is dependant on the earlier patches. Patch [10] isn't dependant on them. Patch [11] depends on both 9 and 10. Changes for v2: - Typographical and spelling corrections to the commit messages. Patches unchanged. David Laight (11): [1] minmax: Put all the clamp() definitions together [2] minmax: Use _Static_assert() instead of static_assert() [3] minmax: Simplify signedness check [4] minmax: Replace multiple __UNIQUE_ID() by directly using __COUNTER__ [5] minmax: Move the signedness check out of __cmp_once() and __clamp_once() [6] minmax: Remove 'constexpr' check from __careful_clamp() [7] minmax: minmax: Add __types_ok3() and optimise defines with 3 arguments [8] minmax: Add min_const() and max_const() [9] tree-wide: minmax: Replace all the uses of max() for array sizes with max_const(). [10] block: Use a boolean expression instead of max() on booleans [11] minmax: min() and max() don't need to return constant expressions block/blk-settings.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu_cmn.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c | 4 +- drivers/input/touchscreen/cyttsp4_core.c | 2 +- .../net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_devlink.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 2 +- include/linux/minmax.h | 211 ++++++++++-------- lib/vsprintf.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/proc.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/proc.c | 2 +- 10 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1 - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)