[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0104: Protocol-oriented integers

[David Sweeris]

> On Jun 23, 2016, at 22:47, Félix Cloutier via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for answering my questions earlier. I like a lot of the changes.
> 
> Speaking of heterogeneous comparisons again, though, how are comparisons of negative signed integers with unsigned integers handled?
> 
> Félix

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd check the sign bit, return the correct answer if it's negative, and if not do an unsafeBitCast to the same-width unsigned type and use that to return the results of the homogeneous comparison.

There's probably a quicker way using some arcane bit-fiddling wizardry, but I don't know it off the top of my head.

- Dave Sweeris
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