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Subject: C code optimization for a = (b < c); (correction)
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Date: 27 May 89 22:26:19 GMT
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Wooops!  I was thinking of the signed form and got put "c - b" instead
of "b - c".  Unsigned form should be:

a = (b < c); ==>

a = (unsigned)((b - c) >> (WIDTH_OF_INT_IN_BITS - 1));

     --Dwight Wilcox
       Code 412
       Naval Ocean Systems Center
       San Diego, CA  92152-5000