Can someone please tell me what this operator does?
 

I inherited soem weird code that makes no sense to me :S The following
line compiles under the gnu c++ compiler

int requiredLength = requestedLength >? 32;

but the windows c++ compiler rejects the >? operator and I have no
idea what it does, nor can I find any mention of this when I google
for the operator.

The complete code section has been modified with #ifdef to get it to
work via the windows c++ compiler


#ifdef WIN32_COMPILER
int bar = foo;

if (bar < 32)
{
bar = 32;
}
#else
int bar = foo >? 32;
#endif

So the >? operator is expanded in the windows code to a check for bar
less than 32 and if true assign 32 to bar. Yet the condensed gnu
version of the code uses a greater than operator and presumably the
ternary operator :?

Re: Can someone please tell me what this operator does?
 

Pep wroteÂ*:

> I inherited soem weird code that makes no sense to me :S The following
> line compiles under the gnu c++ compiler
>
> int requiredLength = requestedLength >? 32;
>
> but the windows c++ compiler rejects the >? operator and I have no idea
> what it does, nor can I find any mention of this when I google for the
> operator.
>
> The complete code section has been modified with #ifdef to get it to
> work via the windows c++ compiler
>
>
> #ifdef WIN32_COMPILER
> int bar = foo;
>
> if (bar < 32)
> {
> bar = 32;
> }
> #else
> int bar = foo >? 32;
> #endif
>
> So the >? operator is expanded in the windows code to a check for bar
> less than 32 and if true assign 32 to bar. Yet the condensed gnu version
> of the code uses a greater than operator and presumably the ternary
> operator :?

What version of gcc are you using again?
Got this with gcc 4.2.4, 4.3.4, 4.5.1 :
http://ideone.com/1xNEK

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Re: Can someone please tell me what this operator does?
 

Lucien Coffe wroteÂ*:

> Pep wroteÂ*:
>
>> I inherited soem weird code that makes no sense to me :S The following
>> line compiles under the gnu c++ compiler
>>
>> int requiredLength = requestedLength >? 32;
>>
>> but the windows c++ compiler rejects the >? operator and I have no idea
>> what it does, nor can I find any mention of this when I google for the
>> operator.
>>
>> The complete code section has been modified with #ifdef to get it to
>> work via the windows c++ compiler
>>
>>
>> #ifdef WIN32_COMPILER
>> int bar = foo;
>>
>> if (bar < 32)
>> {
>> bar = 32;
>> }
>> #else
>> int bar = foo >? 32;
>> #endif
>>
>> So the >? operator is expanded in the windows code to a check for bar
>> less than 32 and if true assign 32 to bar. Yet the condensed gnu
>> version of the code uses a greater than operator and presumably the
>> ternary operator :?
>
> What version of gcc are you using again? Got this with gcc 4.2.4, 4.3.4,
> 4.5.1 : http://ideone.com/1xNEK


They are called "minimum/maximum operators", and are deprtecated.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3...._6.html#SEC116

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Re: Can someone please tell me what this operator does?
 

On Wed, 2011-09-21, Lucien Coffe wrote:
> Lucien Coffe wrote*:
>
>> Pep wrote*:
>>
>>> I inherited soem weird code that makes no sense to me :S The following
>>> line compiles under the gnu c++ compiler
>>>
>>> int requiredLength = requestedLength >? 32;
....
>
> They are called "minimum/maximum operators", and are deprtecated.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3...._6.html#SEC116

And they don't work in g++ either, if you tell it to compile standard
C++.

/Jorgen

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Re: Can someone please tell me what this operator does?
 

On Sep 21, 1:48*pm, Pep <pepaltavi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I inherited soem weird code that makes no sense to me :S The following
> line compiles under the gnu c++ compiler
>
> int requiredLength = requestedLength >? 32;

It wouldn't compile under g++ 4.5.3

> The complete code section has been modified with #ifdef to get it to
> work via the windows c++ compiler
>
> #ifdef WIN32_COMPILER
> * * * * int bar = foo;
>
> * * * * if (bar < 32)
> * * * * {
> * * * * * * * * bar = 32;
> * * * * }
> #else
> * * * * int bar = foo >? 32;
> #endif
>

Why would you do that? Why not to use a standard, portable std::max?
It does not have any side effects, like MAX macro.
If, for some reason, you can't (or don't want to) use STL, just change
it to

int requiredLength = requestedLength > 32 ? requestedLength : 32;

I strongly suggest to avoid using platform/compiler dependent code for
such simple things.

Re: Can someone please tell me what this operator does?
 

Pep wrote:

> I inherited soem weird code that makes no sense to me :S The following
> line compiles under the gnu c++ compiler
>
> int requiredLength = requestedLength >? 32;
>
> but the windows c++ compiler rejects the >? operator and I have no
> idea what it does, nor can I find any mention of this when I google
> for the operator.
>
> The complete code section has been modified with #ifdef to get it to
> work via the windows c++ compiler
>
>
> #ifdef WIN32_COMPILER
> int bar = foo;
>
> if (bar < 32)
> {
> bar = 32;
> }
> #else
> int bar = foo >? 32;
> #endif
>
> So the >? operator is expanded in the windows code to a check for bar
> less than 32 and if true assign 32 to bar. Yet the condensed gnu
> version of the code uses a greater than operator and presumably the
> ternary operator :?


It's GNU's maximum operator. See:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2...._5.html#SEC107


Just strip every instance of these funny operators out of your code and
replace them with decent, standard alterantives such as std::max, as Yakov
Gerlovin suggested.


Rui Maciel