Re: type_size_sort

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 6, 2005, 21:46 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlkyx2911.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <439604DF.5010603@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

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> It's perfectly correct. If the same list was to be passed to 
> create_sorted_list() twice it will come out exactly the same the second 
> time as it did the first. The only thing to remark on is that the return 
> above could be written as below instead:
>
> 	return a - b;

And I suspect Morten would say the same thing about ptrdiff_t could be larger than an int.

I personally feel this would not make any practical difference on sane architectures either way, though..