Templatized branchless int max/min function

Question

I\'m trying to write a branchless function to return the MAX or MIN of two integers without resorting to if (or ?:). Using the usual technique I can do this easily enough for a

Answer 1

I don't know what are the exact conditions for this bit mask trick to work but you can do something like

#include

template{}> > 
inline T imax( T a, T b )
{
   ...
}

Other useful candidates are std::is_[un]signed, std::is_fundamental, etc. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types