From e23eff8be92a2a2cb66b53deef020063cff285ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:41:48 -0800
Subject: qsort() ptrdiff_t may be larger than int

Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> writes:

> The code looks wrong.  It assumes that pointers are no larger than ints.
> If pointers are larger than ints, the code does not necessarily compute
> a consistent ordering and qsort is allowed to do whatever it wants.
>
> Morten
>
> static int compare_object_pointers(const void *a, const void *b)
> {
> 	const struct object * const *pa = a;
> 	const struct object * const *pb = b;
> 	return *pa - *pb;
> }

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index 427e14c..cf5931a 100644
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -82,7 +82,12 @@ static int compare_object_pointers(const void *a, const void *b)
 {
 	const struct object * const *pa = a;
 	const struct object * const *pb = b;
-	return *pa - *pb;
+	if (*pa == *pb)
+		return 0;
+	else if (*pa < *pb)
+		return -1;
+	else
+		return 1;
 }
 
 void set_object_refs(struct object *obj, struct object_refs *refs)
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