This version of mystructcmp uses explicit comparisons,
rather than the more obvious subtractions,
to decide whether to return a negative, zero, or positive value.
In general, it's safer to write comparison functions this way:
subtraction can easily overflow
(and cause either an abort or a quiet wrong answer)
when a very large positive number is compared with
a very large negative number.
(Of course,
in this example,
overflow would be unlikely in any case.)
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