Question on "if" statements...

From: David Cleaver (wraithx_at_morpheus.net)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 02:48:58 -0500

Hello all,

I was wondering if there were some sort of limitations on the "if"
statement? I'm writing a program which needs to check a bunch of
conditions all at the same time (basically). And I'm pretty sure the
rest of the program is working just fine. The only thing I could think
might be wrong is that the if statement can only hold so many values in
itself? Let me show what I'm doing:

if (table001[n[0]][x[0]>>5]&b[x[0]&0x1f] != 0 &&
    table002[n[1]][x[1]>>5]&b[x[1]&0x1f] != 0 &&
    table003[n[2]][x[2]>>5]&b[x[2]&0x1f] != 0 &&
    ... &&
    table030[n[29]][x[29]>>5]&b[x[29]&0x1f] != 0)
{
    do_stuff();
}//end if
else do_other_stuff();

My problem is that "do_stuff" is never executed. There are 30 different
tables of int's I'm checking against up there. I could use more in the
future, and for the purposes of my program, I don't want to use less. I
know that do_stuff should be executed because I have run test cases
where it should have been run. But it just keeps goin to the "else"
statement. I'm probably way off base thinking C is the problem. If you
want to know about my setup here it is:
WinXP, P4 1.8, Compiler: DJGPP using gcc v3.0.3

So, am I expecting too much out of the if statement? Am I using the if
statement incorrectly up there? Any advice or help in this regard is
greatly appreciated.

-David C.

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