Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> type = TYPE_U8_STRING + (8 <= flags) + (16 <= flags); > For that one-liner, you must be playing devil's advocate or something,
I suppose I was :-). Still, if performance is important and if we like computing with 'int' the idea could be packaged up into an inline function or macro that encapsulates the idea in question. That'd be a bit less fragile. It is amusing to see how much nicer the generated code is, at least with my compilers. On one platform the tricky version saves 22% of the instructions and compiles with zero branches instead of two. I know, I know, this sort of thing really should go into GCC rather than people doing this sort of tweaking by hand....
