SQLite

  const UnpackedRecord *pPKey2, /* Right key */
  int desiredResult             /* Correct answer */
){
  u32 d1;            /* Offset into aKey[] of next data element */
  u32 idx1;          /* Offset into aKey[] of next header element */
  u32 szHdr1;        /* Number of bytes in header */
  int i = 0;
  int nField = 0;    /* Number of fields seen in the pKey1 record */
  int rc = 0;
  const unsigned char *aKey1 = (const unsigned char *)pKey1;
  KeyInfo *pKeyInfo;
  Mem mem1;

  pKeyInfo = pPKey2->pKeyInfo;
  if( pKeyInfo->db==0 ) return 1;

  assert( pKeyInfo->nField>0 );
  assert( idx1<=szHdr1 || CORRUPT_DB );
  do{
    u32 serial_type1;

    /* Read the serial types for the next element in each key. */
    idx1 += getVarint32( aKey1+idx1, serial_type1 );
    nField++;

    /* Verify that there is enough key space remaining to avoid
    ** a buffer overread.  The "d1+serial_type1+2" subexpression will
    ** always be greater than or equal to the amount of required key space.
    ** Use that approximation to avoid the more expensive call to
    ** sqlite3VdbeSerialTypeLen() in the common case.
    */

  /* rc==0 here means that one of the keys ran out of fields and
  ** all the fields up to that point were equal. Return the default_rc
  ** value.  */
  rc = pPKey2->default_rc;

debugCompareEnd:
  /* Verify that the total number of columns in the record does not
  ** exceed pKeyInfo->nField + pKeyInfo->nXField.  
  */
  while( idx1<szHdr1 ){
    u32 serial_type1;
    idx1 += getVarint32( aKey1+idx1, serial_type1);
    nField++;
  }
  assert( nField <= pKeyInfo->nField + pKeyInfo->nXField || CORRUPT_DB );

  if( desiredResult==0 && rc==0 ) return 1;
  if( desiredResult<0 && rc<0 ) return 1;
  if( desiredResult>0 && rc>0 ) return 1;
  if( CORRUPT_DB ) return 1;
  if( pKeyInfo->db->mallocFailed ) return 1;
  return 0;
}