[PATCH] manual: Correct guarantee about pointers compared by qsort()
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Dec 11 10:25:00 GMT 2014
On 12/11/2014 10:57 AM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> +Although the object addresses passed to the comparison function lie
> +within the array, they need not correspond with the original locations
> +of those objects, because the sorting algorithm may swap around
No comma before âbecauseâ.
> +objects in the array before making some comparisons. The only way to
> +perform a stable sort with @var{qsort} is to first augment the objects
> +with a monotonic counter of some kind.
â@code{qsort}â instead of â@var{qsort}â.
Otherwise looks fine.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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