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Rasmus Villemoes authored
Relying on the sign (after casting to int) of the difference of two quantities for comparison is usually wrong. For example, should a-b turn out to be 2^31, the return value of cmp(a,b) is -2^31; but that would also be the return value from cmp(b, a). So a compares less than b and b compares less than a. One can also easily find three values a,b,c such that a compares less than b, b compares less than c, but a does not compare less than c. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Reviewed-by:
Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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