From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:46:50 GMT
Subject: Re: type_size_sort
Message-ID: <7vlkyx2911.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <439604DF.5010603@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:


> 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..