From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strcmp: fix overflow error
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:34:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2pr7g3n7g.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911171916.41727.mb@bu3sch.de> (Michael Buesch's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:16:40 +0100")
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:
> Well, that doesn't actually return the difference at all. Is that allowed?
The only requirement is that the compare functions return <0,0,>0
depending on the order.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-17 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 16:51 Uwe Kleine-König
2009-11-17 17:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-17 17:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-17 18:16 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-17 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-17 20:34 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-11-17 18:55 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2009-11-17 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-17 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-17 19:19 ` Joe Perches
2009-11-18 21:31 ` [PATCH] strcmp: fix overflow and possibly signedness error Uwe Kleine-König
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