C IF statement efficiency...

[Henry Spencer]

In article <8808171400.AA05122 at ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> U23405 at 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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