Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C IF statement efficiency...
Message-ID: <1988Aug19.154527.17181@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8808171400.AA05122@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 88 15:45:27 GMT

In article <8808171400.AA05122@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> U23405@UICVM writes:
>          if (big > small)             if (big > small)
>               return big;                  return big;
>          else                         return small;
>               return small;

Most C compilers should generate precisely the same code for these.
Really dumb ones might generate an extra "return;" after the lefthand
code, not realizing that it was unreachable.
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