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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW --- - difference of non negative enums is never negative"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83295">83295</a>
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>difference of non negative enums is never negative
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>cairo-bugs@cairographics.org
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>sixtysix@inwind.it
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Other
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>general
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>cairo
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        <pre>Gcc treats enum with non negative values as unsigned,
so using the difference in a comparison function is
questionable:

<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/tree/src/cairo-polygon-intersect.c#n794">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/tree/src/cairo-polygon-intersect.c#n794</a>

for example adding a 

assert (a->type - b->type >= 0);

gcc prints

src/cairo-polygon-intersect.c|795 col 15| warning: comparison of unsigned
expression >= 0 is always true [-Wtype-limits]
      assert (a->type - b->type >= 0);

this means that three events (START, STOP, INTERSECTION) in the same
place will be potentially each one after each other, making difficult
to understand whether equally located STOP/INTER/START events should be
really processed in that order or not.</pre>
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