[PATCH] support: Add TEST_COMPARE macro
Andreas Schwab
schwab@suse.de
Thu Nov 23 13:01:00 GMT 2017
On Nov 23 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/23/2017 12:49 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Nov 23 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> for me, although mathematically, the values are different.
>>
>> Are they?
>
> Taken by themselves, they most certainly are.
Both are -1.
> I think this matters for writing portable tests, where some expression
> might be signed on one architecture, and unsigned on another.
Comparing two different domains is always going to be surprising.
Andreas.
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