Johan V. wrote:
I know it's very obscured. Think about the wasted clock cycles for a minute, the above can be implemented without conditional jumps ...
More to the point though I think technically its broken. Im fairly sure C only defines 0 to be false. *all* other values are true, therefore you are relying on the compiler to use 1.
also from an assembler standpoint, some CPUs may not be able to implement reg = (a>0) without a branch.
best to use conditionals and let the compiler work out how best to fit them around the target CPU. (even better to go fix gcc so it does that well)
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