Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller]) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Which is better? Message-ID: <2075@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 02:30:19 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2075 Posted: Fri Dec 14 02:30:19 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:23:54 EST References: <13900013@acf4.UUCP> <4765@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller]) Organization: Callahans Lines: 17 Summary: >Any decent C compiler should generate exactly the same code for these >two cases, and the if-then-else is probably clearer to read. (Indecent >C compilers are utterly unpredictable, so I can't address them...) Indecent compilers should have their development arrested... chuq (gonna wish I didn't say that tomorrow.... *urgh*) -- From behind the bar at Callahan's: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA The evil that men do lives after them; the good it oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious... And Brutus is an honorable man