Is there a way to limit an integer value to a certain range without branching?

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Published on 2010-05-19T18:49:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 19:00 UTC
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Just out of curiosity. If I have something like:

if(x < 0)
    x = 0;
if(x > some_maximum)
    x = some_maximum;

return x;

Is there a way to not branch? This is c++.

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