Re: List.sortBy shows wrong result

Chris <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:06:45 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.scala
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes, but why does this affect the sort order?



Am Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2016 09:37:10 UTC+1 schrieb David Starner:
>
> The negation of -21474836848 in 32-bit two's complement arithmetic is 
> -21474836848. There is no positive value corresponding to the negative of 
> the minimal value in two's complement arithmetic.
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 11:56 PM Chris <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> List.sortBy show a strange behaviour:
>>
>> val l = List(Int.MinValue, Int.MinValue+1)
>> l.sortBy(I => I)  // List(-2147483648, -2147483647)
>> l.sortBy(I => -I) // List(-2147483648, -2147483647)
>>
>>
>> If I use other values anything seems ok
>>
>> val l = List(Int.MinValue+2, Int.MinValue+1)
>> l.sortBy(I => I)  // List(-2147483647, -2147483646)
>> l.sortBy(I => -I) // List(-2147483646, -2147483647)
>>
>>
>> What's wrong here?
>> Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
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