It's not quite the same as XOR swap, but a trick I've found handy is conditionally swapping values using XOR: int a, b; bool cond; int swap =

It's not quite the same as XOR swap, but a trick I've found handy is conditionally swapping values using XOR: int a, b; bool cond; int swap = cond ? a ^ b : 0; a ^= swap; b ^= swap; If cond is highly unpredictable this can work rather nicely.