What does y -= m < 3 mean?

Question

While looking through some example C code, I came across this:

y -= m < 3;

What does this do? It it some kind of condensed for loop or som

Answer 1

I means if (m < 3) { y -=1; }, since (m < 3) is 1 if m is less than 3, 0 otherwise.

The code appears in some hoary old reference implementation of something to do with either leap years or Easter, or possibly both: the first two months January and February are special because they occur before the leap day. There isn't really any excuse for writing code like that, unless you actually like the look of it. Most people don't.