fix(tvix/eval): never use partial_cmp() (partial fix b/338) r/7166

This is part of a fix for b/338.

We should never use PartialOrd::partial_cmp().

All Nix types except floats are obviously totally-ordered.  In
addition, it turns out that because Nix treats division by zero
rather than producing a NaN, and because it does not support
"negative zero", even floats are in fact totally ordered in Nix.

Therefore, every call to PartialOrd::partial_cmp() in tvix is an
error.  We have to *implement* this function, but we should never
call it on built-in types.

Moreover, nix_cmp_ordering() currently returns an Option<Ordering>.
I'm not sure what was going on there, since it's impossible for it
to return None.  This commit fixes it to return simply Ordering
rather than Option<Ordering>.

Change-Id: If5c084164cf19cfb38c5a15554c0422faa5f895d
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10218
Autosubmit: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tvix/eval/src/builtins/mod.rs b/tvix/eval/src/builtins/mod.rs
index ead916377f..35b7549ffe 100644
--- a/tvix/eval/src/builtins/mod.rs
+++ b/tvix/eval/src/builtins/mod.rs
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ mod pure_builtins {
     async fn builtin_less_than(co: GenCo, x: Value, y: Value) -> Result<Value, ErrorKind> {
         Ok(Value::Bool(matches!(
             x.nix_cmp_ordering(y, co).await?,
-            Some(Ordering::Less)
+            Ordering::Less
         )))
     }