Inquiry on C instruction shortcuts and Macro

[Guest]

Hello,

I am just curious when I read an ANSI-C books I found few instruction that uses shorcuts!!! a few examples listed below:

[ckielstra]

I have no clue as to what exactly your question is, can you give me another clue?

Do you want to know more about what macro's are? If yes, then call them by their name and don't call them 'shortcuts'.

Your first example is a macro, the second is just a line of normal C code.

General questions about the C language that have nothing to do with the CCS compiler or the PIC processor shouldn't be posted here but in another forum like comp.lang.c.

[Mark]

The first is an example of the "ternary operator". Very confusing to many and you should limit its use. It means the same as