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From: kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: cond. op. on ='s LHS
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.222200.12617@demott.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 22:22:00 GMT
References: <4155@cernvax.cern.ch>
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In article <4155@cernvax.cern.ch> burow@cernvax.cern.ch (burkhard burow) writes:
>I'm wondering if anyone has any comments on using:
>
>       *(a==b?&c:&d) = 1;
>
>instead of:
>
>       if (a==b) c=1;
>       else      d=1;

    It's cryptic and ugly, therefore harder to maintain.  It also produces
identical code (gcc, MSC 6.0).  It *does* save several bytes of storage.



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