"If statement" deleted, c code runs without problem, what is the reason?

Question

When the if statement is deleted, the code runs without problems. What is the reason for that? This code gives the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) of two numbers (m and n) the user should input.

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
    int m, n, r;
    scanf("%d,%d", &m, &n);

    if (m < n) {
        r = m;
        m = n;
        n = r;
    }

    do {
        r = m % n;
        m = n;
        n = r;
    } while (r != 0);

    printf("%d\n", m);
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

It is not important whether m is greater than n. If m initially is less than n then in the first iteration of the do-while loop

do {
    r = m % n;
    m = n;
    n = r;
} while (r != 0);

m will be greater than n due to the statement

    m = n;

For example let's assume that m is equal to 2 and n is equal to 10. So r equal to m % n will be equal to 2 and in fact these statements

m = n;
n = r;

swap m and n in the first iteration of the loop.

Answer 2

There is nothing wrong with if() statement though... The only thing that can maybe go wrong is misusing scanf(), apart from that your code works super fine