int quicklistDelRange(quicklist *quicklist, const long start,
                      const long count) {
    if (count <= 0)
        return 0;

    unsigned long extent = count; /* range is inclusive of start position */

    if (start >= 0 && extent > (quicklist->count - start)) {
        /* if requesting delete more elements than exist, limit to list size. */
        extent = quicklist->count - start;
    } else if (start < 0 && extent > (unsigned long)(-start)) {
        /* else, if at negative offset, limit max size to rest of list. */
        extent = -start; /* c.f. LREM -29 29; just delete until end. */
    }

    quicklistEntry entry;
    if (!quicklistIndex(quicklist, start, &entry))
        return 0;

    D("Quicklist delete request for start %ld, count %ld, extent: %ld", start,
      count, extent);
    quicklistNode *node = entry.node;

    /* iterate over next nodes until everything is deleted. */
    while (extent) {
        quicklistNode *next = node->next;

        unsigned long del;
        int delete_entire_node = 0;
        if (entry.offset == 0 && extent >= node->count) {
            /* If we are deleting more than the count of this node, we
             * can just delete the entire node without ziplist math. */
            delete_entire_node = 1;
            del = node->count;
        } else if (entry.offset >= 0 && extent >= node->count) {
            /* If deleting more nodes after this one, calculate delete based
             * on size of current node. */
            del = node->count - entry.offset;
        } else if (entry.offset < 0) {
            /* If offset is negative, we are in the first run of this loop
             * and we are deleting the entire range
             * from this start offset to end of list.  Since the Negative
             * offset is the number of elements until the tail of the list,
             * just use it directly as the deletion count. */
            del = -entry.offset;

            /* If the positive offset is greater than the remaining extent,
             * we only delete the remaining extent, not the entire offset.
             */
            if (del > extent)
                del = extent;
        } else {
            /* else, we are deleting less than the extent of this node, so
             * use extent directly. */
            del = extent;
        }

        D("[%ld]: asking to del: %ld because offset: %d; (ENTIRE NODE: %d), "
          "node count: %u",
          extent, del, entry.offset, delete_entire_node, node->count);

        if (delete_entire_node) {
            __quicklistDelNode(quicklist, node);
        } else {
            quicklistDecompressNodeForUse(node);
            node->zl = ziplistDeleteRange(node->zl, entry.offset, del);
            quicklistNodeUpdateSz(node);
            node->count -= del;
            quicklist->count -= del;
            quicklistDeleteIfEmpty(quicklist, node);
            if (node)
                quicklistRecompressOnly(quicklist, node);
        }

        extent -= del;

        node = next;

        entry.offset = 0;
    }
    return 1;
}
int quicklistDelRange(quicklist *quicklist, const long start,
                      const long count) {
    if (count <= 0)
        return 0;

    unsigned long extent = count;  

    if (start >= 0 && extent > (quicklist->count - start)) {
         
        extent = quicklist->count - start;
    } else if (start < 0 && extent > (unsigned long)(-start)) {
         
        extent = -start;  
    }

    quicklistEntry entry;
    if (!quicklistIndex(quicklist, start, &entry))
        return 0;

    D("Quicklist delete request for start %ld, count %ld, extent: %ld", start,
      count, extent);
    quicklistNode *node = entry.node;

     
    while (extent) {
        quicklistNode *next = node->next;

        unsigned long del;
        int delete_entire_node = 0;
        if (entry.offset == 0 && extent >= node->count) {
             
            delete_entire_node = 1;
            del = node->count;
        } else if (entry.offset >= 0 && extent >= node->count) {
             
            del = node->count - entry.offset;
        } else if (entry.offset < 0) {
             
            del = -entry.offset;

             
            if (del > extent)
                del = extent;
        } else {
             
            del = extent;
        }

        D("[%ld]: asking to del: %ld because offset: %d; (ENTIRE NODE: %d), "
          "node count: %u",
          extent, del, entry.offset, delete_entire_node, node->count);

        if (delete_entire_node) {
            __quicklistDelNode(quicklist, node);
        } else {
            quicklistDecompressNodeForUse(node);
            node->zl = ziplistDeleteRange(node->zl, entry.offset, del);
            quicklistNodeUpdateSz(node);
            node->count -= del;
            quicklist->count -= del;
            quicklistDeleteIfEmpty(quicklist, node);
            if (node)
                quicklistRecompressOnly(quicklist, node);
        }

        extent -= del;

        node = next;

        entry.offset = 0;
    }
    return 1;
}