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Doug Cutting resolved HADOOP-176.
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Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
Resolution: Fixed
I just committed this. Thanks, Dick.
> comparators of integral writable types are not transitive for inequalities
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>
> Key: HADOOP-176
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-176
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: io
> Environment: red hat
> Reporter: Dick King
> Fix For: 0.6.0
>
>
> Consider the following code from IntWritable.java :
> public int compare(byte[] b1, int s1, int l1,
> byte[] b2, int s2, int l2) {
> int thisValue = readInt(b1, s1);
> int thatValue = readInt(b2, s2);
> return thisValue - thatValue;
> }
> If a Java Runtime subtracts 20 from -(2^31 - 10) it gets a huge positive
> number, not the negative value that the comparator should return.
> LongWritable does this right, of course.
> That last line should be
> return (thisValue<thatValue ? -1 : (thisValue==thatValue ? 0 : 1));
> -dk
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