How do I programmatically return the max of two integers without using any comparison operators and without using if, else, etc?

Question

How do I programmatically return the maximum of two integers without using any comparison operators and without using if, else, etc?

Answer 1

return (a > b ? a : b);

or

int max(int a, int b)
{
        int x = (a - b) >> 31;
        int y = ~x;
        return (y & a) | (x & b); 
}