cmp_int(9)

🎀 cmp_int(9) 🎀

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — we're doing cmp_int today and honestly it's giving tiny-but-mighty icon behavior 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

cmp_int — perform a three-way comparison of the arguments

like, it looks at two things and tells you who's bigger. that's the whole job. and it ate. 🔥

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cmp_int (l , r );

yes that's the whole call. no cap, she's compact. 🫶

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• l — the left argument 👈
• r — the right argument 👉

two arguments, one on the left, one on the right. we love a symmetrical setup. ✨

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💖 RETURN 💖

three possible moods, and you're getting exactly one of them:

• 1 if the left argument is greater than the right one 🔥
• 0 if the arguments are equal 🎀
• -1 if the left argument is less than the right one 💀

it's literally the whole three-way comparison vibe. greater, equal, lesser — the holy trinity. periodt. 👑

ngl, keep these exact values in mind: 1, 0, -1. don't go inventing new numbers, bestie, the kernel will not be amused 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./include/linux/sort.h 📁 — go look, iykyk 🧚

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and that's the page!! sending you off with the receipts: this one lives under ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it's literally called cmp_int(9) — iconic, no notes 💜⭐🍓