[Solved] Bithack for: if x is 0, then x should be -1, else x should be untouched

• x |= -(x == 0);
• x |= -!x;
• x = x ? x : 0xFFFFFFFF;

• if (x == 0)
x = 0xFFFFFFFF;

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