[comp.lang.c] Library sort routines

g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter) (07/21/88)

In article <504@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:

	... a discussion of whether he should post a version of qsort
	using linked lists and the calling sequence issue ...

It won't hurt if you post it.  However the merits of qsort, such as they
are, are that is a relatively convenient sort that is not absurdly slow.
There are a lot of issues involved in writing quality sorts that can't
be resolved in a general purpose utility.
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