From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:05:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (sortlines_temp): Declare local `swap' to be `int', not
X-Git-Tag: v5.0.90~29
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=682d905a29896bb25b33cffdd62b5e5487ada4eb;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(sortlines_temp): Declare local `swap' to be `int', not
`bool'.  Otherwise, at least one buggy compiler (alpha gcc-2.95.4)
would cause lines[-1 - swap] (with swap = false) to evaluate to
lines[4294967295].
---

diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index e9a8354c48..fd99221202 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ sortlines_temp (struct line *lines, size_t nlines, struct line *temp)
 {
   if (nlines == 2)
     {
-      bool swap = (0 < compare (&lines[-1], &lines[-2]));
+      int swap = (0 < compare (&lines[-1], &lines[-2]));
       temp[-1] = lines[-1 - swap];
       temp[-2] = lines[-2 + swap];
     }