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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-16 19:19:13 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-16 19:19:13 +0000
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Adding upstream version 1.21.8.upstream/1.21.8
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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+// Copyright 2023 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package cmp provides types and functions related to comparing
+// ordered values.
+package cmp
+
+// Ordered is a constraint that permits any ordered type: any type
+// that supports the operators < <= >= >.
+// If future releases of Go add new ordered types,
+// this constraint will be modified to include them.
+//
+// Note that floating-point types may contain NaN ("not-a-number") values.
+// An operator such as == or < will always report false when
+// comparing a NaN value with any other value, NaN or not.
+// See the [Compare] function for a consistent way to compare NaN values.
+type Ordered interface {
+ ~int | ~int8 | ~int16 | ~int32 | ~int64 |
+ ~uint | ~uint8 | ~uint16 | ~uint32 | ~uint64 | ~uintptr |
+ ~float32 | ~float64 |
+ ~string
+}
+
+// Less reports whether x is less than y.
+// For floating-point types, a NaN is considered less than any non-NaN,
+// and -0.0 is not less than (is equal to) 0.0.
+func Less[T Ordered](x, y T) bool {
+ return (isNaN(x) && !isNaN(y)) || x < y
+}
+
+// Compare returns
+//
+// -1 if x is less than y,
+// 0 if x equals y,
+// +1 if x is greater than y.
+//
+// For floating-point types, a NaN is considered less than any non-NaN,
+// a NaN is considered equal to a NaN, and -0.0 is equal to 0.0.
+func Compare[T Ordered](x, y T) int {
+ xNaN := isNaN(x)
+ yNaN := isNaN(y)
+ if xNaN && yNaN {
+ return 0
+ }
+ if xNaN || x < y {
+ return -1
+ }
+ if yNaN || x > y {
+ return +1
+ }
+ return 0
+}
+
+// isNaN reports whether x is a NaN without requiring the math package.
+// This will always return false if T is not floating-point.
+func isNaN[T Ordered](x T) bool {
+ return x != x
+}