Re: Warning meaning.

mdh wrote:
Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

.... snip ...

return (*s > *t) - (*s < *t);

Thanks ...never seen it that way...but it is quite elegant.

Since it never deals with numbers greater than 1, it avoids all
possibilities of overflow. Also works for all numerical types for
*s and *t.

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