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From: 6600tom@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Thomas Kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Efficiency Question
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Date: 26 Feb 91 19:07:08 GMT
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In article <4bmBqau00Uh_M0aHgb@andrew.cmu.edu> rg2c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Nelson Gasch) writes:

>Since C gives you the opportunity to condense statements, I was wondering
>what difference to the compiler these 'shortcuts' make. 

>For example, you can write:
>   if (x > y)
>       z = x;
>   else
>       x = y;
        ^^^^^
>The same thing can be expressed like this:
>   z = (x > y) ? x : y;

Nope.  It should be
    if (x > y)
	z = x;
    else
	z = u;

-Thomas.

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