The width of wchar_t is allowed to be of the same width as long,
according to standards. The return type of mbscasecmp is int though.

On amd64 with a 32 bit int, this means that mbscasecmp can return
zero (indicating that strings are equal) even though the input
strings differ.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Stoeckmann <tob...@stoeckmann.org>
---
 src/pacman/util.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pacman/util.c b/src/pacman/util.c
index 81780f7..b979083 100644
--- a/src/pacman/util.c
+++ b/src/pacman/util.c
@@ -1503,6 +1503,8 @@ int select_question(int count)
        return (preset - 1);
 }
 
+#define CMP(x, y) ((x) < (y) ? -1 : ((x) > (y) ? 1 : 0))
+
 static int mbscasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 {
        size_t len1 = strlen(s1), len2 = strlen(s2);
@@ -1520,19 +1522,19 @@ static int mbscasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2)
                        return strcasecmp(p1, p2);
                }
                if(b1 == 0 || b2 == 0) {
-                       return c1 - c2;
+                       return CMP(c1, c2);
                }
                c1 = towlower(c1);
                c2 = towlower(c2);
                if(c1 != c2) {
-                       return c1 - c2;
+                       return CMP(c1, c2);
                }
                p1 += b1;
                p2 += b2;
                len1 -= b1;
                len2 -= b2;
        }
-       return *p1 - *p2;
+       return CMP(*p1, *p2);
 }
 
 /* presents a prompt and gets a Y/N answer */
-- 
2.9.0

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