Which is better?

[Henry Spencer]

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...)
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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