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How to find if two numbers are with different sign?

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Given two numbers say int32, please help to write a function that returns true if the signs of given integers are different, otherwise false.

posted Nov 29, 2013 by Sanketi Garg

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Check this, logic is simple if highest bit xor is 1 then different sign else same sign

bool different_sign (int a, int b)
{
    return ((a ^ b) < 0);
}
answer Nov 29, 2013 by Salil Agrawal
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