what is the >? operator called

What is the >? operator called in the following code:

Code:

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int a = 3, b=4, c=5;   
int r = c <? b <? a;

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I can figure that it finds the minimum, but what is that operator called? It's different from the ternary operator, which I've seen before ( for ex. a>b?1:0 ).

That operator doesn't exist in C++

What you are seeing is a clever terse expression based on the ternary operator and the less-than operator

On my compiler:
error C2059: syntax error : '?'
Why you can compile but I don't?

It's a GCC-only extension for minimum/maximum.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3....ml#Min-and-Max

Yup. I was looking through it, but couldn't find it anywhere. Thanks for clearing it out. I was wrong the first time.

It looks ugly (IMO), much more so than the ternary one, which I'm only sometimes fond of.