Code explanation for pop member Function

count += (c == s.pop());

1. The member function s.pop() is called. Since s is passed to the cnt_char() function "by value," a local copy of s is made inside the function and therefore the actual value of s is not being modified. When s.pop() is called inside cnt_char(), the first element of the local copy of s is being taken off the stack and the second element of local s becomes its first element. The member function s.pop() returns the element that has been taken off the stack.
2. The returned element is compared to c. We wish to count the occurrences of c. The returned value of (c == s.pop()) is either true or false. The TRUE, FALSE return values are interpreted as 1 or 0 by the compiler, where TRUE = 1 and FALSE = 0.
3. Depending on the return value of the == expression, count is either incremented by 1 or by 0.

char* just_popped;
just_popped = s.pop();
if (c == just_popped)
   count++;