Hi Bill! :-)

 BB>     By that very definition it is a term used in C. I said nothing 
 BB> about a macro. I said only that maxint was defined. It does appear in 
 BB> italics on the left hand side, doesn't it? Read what you yourself 
 BB> wrote: "other terms are defined ....".
Now let's try compiling a C program with minint in it:

#include 

int foo = maxint;

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W   -c -o minint.o minint.c
minint.c:3: `minint' undeclared here (not in a function)

No such problem occurs for INT_MAX.

It would also be against the naming conventions used in the C standard to
define a constant with a name in lower case.

Ciao
Pascal

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