cygwin qsort erratic

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 16:31, Kurt-Karen Carlson-Lougheed via Cygwin <
cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

>
> B. If you could kindly provide me or point me to the cygwin qsort() source
> I'll check it out myself.
>


The source code is availble at
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git and with the git
command can be cloned using

git clone https://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git

this will create a directory called newlib-cygwin you can cd into . The
qsort source code is in the directory newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/search and
looks to be based off the BSD qsort from around 2002. To see the changes to
this over time one can do a

git blame newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/search/qsort.c

and

git log newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/search/qsort.c

The git log is clear on the changes done in 2018 to reduce stack size.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.