From a16fdfe45effde3476c1c0f268be20cbe4feb7cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:53:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added epicsAlgorithm.h header containing epicsMin, epicsMax &
 epicsSwap.

---
 src/libCom/Makefile                |  1 +
 src/libCom/cppStd/epicsAlgorithm.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/libCom/cppStd/epicsAlgorithm.h

diff --git a/src/libCom/Makefile b/src/libCom/Makefile
index e14642545..2017352fc 100644
--- a/src/libCom/Makefile
+++ b/src/libCom/Makefile
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ SRCS += cvtFast.c
 
 # From cppStd
 SRC_DIRS += $(LIBCOM)/cppStd
+INC += epicsAlgorithm.h
 INC += epicsExcept.h
 INC += epicsList.h
 INC += epicsListBase.h
diff --git a/src/libCom/cppStd/epicsAlgorithm.h b/src/libCom/cppStd/epicsAlgorithm.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1bedf1e1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libCom/cppStd/epicsAlgorithm.h
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+// epicsAlgorithm.h
+//	Authors: Jeff Hill & Andrew Johnson
+
+#ifndef __EPICS_ALGORITHM_H__
+#define __EPICS_ALGORITHM_H__
+
+template <class T>
+inline const T& epicsMax (const T& a, const T& b)
+{
+    return (a<b) ? b : a;
+}
+
+template <class T>
+inline const T& epicsMin (const T& a, const T& b)
+{
+    return (a<b) ? a : b;
+}
+
+template <class T>
+inline void epicsSwap(T& a, T& b)
+{
+    T temp = a;
+    a = b;
+    b = temp;
+}
+
+#endif // __EPICS_ALGORITHM_H__