Bigint: -1 < -2

Question

guidovranken opened this issue 4 years ago · 3 comments

#include <botan/bigint.h>

int main(void)
{
    printf("%d\n", Botan::BigInt("-1") < Botan::BigInt("-2"));
    return 0;
}

This prints 1. Is this intentional?

Answer 1 · 2021-03-04T13:45:17.000Z

Not intentional - investigating

Answer 2 · 2021-03-04T23:02:14.000Z

Bug introduced in 00b6842 - operator< when both arguments were negative reversed the results.

Answer 3 · 2021-03-06T13:18:39.000Z

Fixed on master and release-2 now thanks for the report.