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On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 06:01:40PM +0100, Tels wrote: > Here are two test c files, both "compiled" with gcc -s -O3 and I show only > the assembly output for the main functions here: Maybe my message was bad formulated. I didn't say to keep the if (..) ..; code - silly compilers doesn't seem to grok it. Maybe the thing everybody wants is: in .h #define ABS(a) ((a) < 0 ? -(a) : (a)) /* beware: it evaluates 'a' twice */ in .c left % ABS(right) But, please please don't use the wicked abs() function. It's not an operator. It will always punch its argument into an int, should it be long long, long, unsigned, etc. GCC will sometimes inline it and sometimes not. You'll be better off if you _never_ use it :-) > Oh, one more thought: In the code in question, what are "right" and "left"? > ints? longs? or IVs? They are IVs. This means they could be 64-bit on a 32-bit platform. (If you configured with -Duse64bitint). AdiThread Previous | Thread Next