> No, my response to that is because they are kernel developers, not compiler developers. For the nth time. This really isn't rocket science. They need something that works in the kernel on today's compilers. The end.

I have no idea how you make this stuff up, but Linux and GCC have thousands of developers working on them from all across the world, and Linux heavily takes advantage of GCC built-ins. There even exist active maintainers who understand and contribute to both... not that that is in any shape or form a requirement for putting out a request from one project to the other. The idea that they would've been unable to find a single person with sufficient interest & understanding of compilers to implement min/max in it is downright absurd. If they wanted to do this someone would have implemented it a long time ago. And yes, the end.