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Re: type_size_sort

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MWMorten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2005, 03:01 UTC
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> Notice?  The comparison of two pointers you originally pointed
> out is not about the location in list[].  They are values stored
> there.
Ah, right you are.

Mildly relatedly, notice that a<b can be valid when a-b<0 is not. ptrdiff_t is not required to be big enough to hold the difference! (A highly dubious part of the C standard.)

M.
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