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Strange Behaviour Noticed
By NeverSayNever, history, 9 years ago, In English

Hi Everyone,

I would like to ask all of you about the cause for this kind of strange behaviour of my code with respect to little change.

I have made submission to the following problem Rebuild (January Clash Contest). I have made the following submission at first link here and got following result.

I thought and checked for the possible reason of segmentation fault but could n't find one as everything was correct according to me then suddenly i made one small change and woohhhh amazingly it worked and the change was ..

I am still not convinced with whatever happened to me. After all what possible difference an "equal to" can cause in this case. Please explain ?

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Its due to equal to sign in comparison function (probably for sorting). I also experienced the same issue in the recent Codechef contest and took like 10 submissions to find the cause. Here it is explained: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2385690/sorting-only-using-the-less-than-operator-compared-to-a-trivalue-compare-functio

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