RE: [PATCH 02/19] host-utils: move abs64() to host-utils

[Luis Fernando Fujita Pires]

From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

> > Right, that's true of any standard implementation of abs().
> > I thought about making it return uint64_t, but that could make it
> > weird for other uses of abs64(), where callers wouldn't expect a type
> > change from int64_t to uint64_t. Maybe create a separate uabs64() that
> > returns uint64_t? Or is that even weirder? :)
> 
> Which users of abs64 would expect it to return int64_t?
> kvm_pit_update_clock_offset() doesn't seem to.

Oh, I wasn't referring to any specific users. What I meant is that, if we make 
abs64() generically available from host-utils, callers could expect it to 
behave the same way as abs() in stdlib, for example.

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Luis Pires
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