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Re: [COMMITED][v2] manual: Remove incorrect claim that qsort() can be stabilized

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:53:00 -0800
Subject: Re: [COMMITED][v2] manual: Remove incorrect claim that qsort() can be stabilized
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Florian Weimer wrote:

Ugh, that's a new requirement in C99, isn't it?


Yes, this qsort requirement wasn't in C89.

(Though I wouldn't call it "new". Many people I work with were in kindergartenwhen C99 came out....)

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