Re: Portable replacement

Thomas Mertes wrote:

What about something like:

int greater_or_equal4 (unsigned u, unsigned v)
{
return ((int) u) >= ((int) v);
}

that way greater_or_equal4(65000, 10) would return 0
(at least when the size of int and unsigned is 2).

For the record, the original functions, renamed foo1 and foo2
to prevent people from focusing on their result.

int foo1(uint16_t u, uint16_t v)
{
return (int16_t)(u-v) >= 0;
}

int foo2(unsigned u, unsigned v)
{
return ((u-v) & 0xffffU) <= 0x7fffU;
}

On my platform, foo1 and foo2 are equivalent.
My claim is that foo2 is portable, while foo1 is not.

greater_or_equal4 is not equivalent to foo2.
(Consider u=32000 and v=33000)

greater_or_equal4 has even worse shortcomings than foo1, as it
requires int and unsigned int to be 16 bits wide, which is not
true on my platform.
.

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