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

You may want to look at the Boost.TypeTraits library. For detecting whether a type is signed you can use the is_signed trait. You can also look into enable_if/disable_if for removing overloads for certain types.