bc: fix comparison bug, closes 12336

[oweals/busybox.git] / miscutils / bc.c

diff --git a/miscutils/bc.c b/miscutils/bc.c
index 92721d18fc9212cfd31b82c0dd454394b3f445c0..c7246ea1a1610195e78de07d9e09b4e38535fcdd 100644 (file)
--- a/miscutils/bc.c
+++ b/miscutils/bc.c
@@ -1465,7 +1465,10 @@ static ssize_t bc_num_cmp(BcNum *a, BcNum *b)
        b_int = BC_NUM_INT(b);
        a_int -= b_int;
 
-       if (a_int != 0) return (ssize_t) a_int;
+       if (a_int != 0) {
+               if (neg) return - (ssize_t) a_int;
+               return (ssize_t) a_int;
+       }
 
        a_max = (a->rdx > b->rdx);
        if (a_max) {