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Re: Application Exercises

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Application Exercises
Date 2019-04-09 13:29 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:

> Challenge problem:  write a signed-integer equality determiner
> without using any comparisons:  no comparison operators, no
> conversions to bool, no &&, ||, or ?:, no if()'s, for()'s,
> or while()'s, and (the sneaky one) no switch()'s.  A nice
> little problem.  The gold standard is a solution that works
> on any conforming implementation.

... and presumably no !.

-- 
Ben.

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Re: Application Exercises Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-04-06 14:23 -0400
  Re: Application Exercises Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-04-09 04:35 -0700
    Re: Application Exercises Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-09 13:29 +0100
      Re: Application Exercises Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-04-09 08:02 -0700
    Re: Application Exercises Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-04-09 22:15 -0400
      Re: Application Exercises Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-04-09 20:55 -0700
        Re: Application Exercises Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-04-09 22:21 -0600
          Re: Application Exercises Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-04-10 06:31 -0400
          Re: Application Exercises James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-04-10 07:43 -0400
        Re: Application Exercises Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-04-10 06:40 -0400
          Re: Application Exercises Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-04-10 08:15 -0700
      Re: Application Exercises James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-04-10 07:37 -0400

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