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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Jon Chesterfield <jonathanchesterfield@gmail.com>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com,  Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [musl] [PATCH] stdlib: implement qsort_r
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:27:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl66plyd.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOUYtQBSpJf-QnXpAKZQJk9E=Lx3SRxOjk-r3gm_8JnxEj7NSQ@mail.gmail.com> (Jon Chesterfield's message of "Sun, 8 Aug 2021 13:42:27 +0100")

* Jon Chesterfield:

> On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 12:29 PM Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>  The extension qsort_r allows calling qsort on a list of indices
>  without having a global variable to hold the data to sort.
>
> qsort_r is a strong improvement on qsort. I think it's available outside of
> glibc.

Right.  Solaris has it, too.  And apparently FreeBSD adjusted their
interface: <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17083>

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-09 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-08 11:26 Olivier Galibert
2021-08-08 12:42 ` Jon Chesterfield
2021-08-08 19:39   ` Olivier Galibert
2021-08-08 20:35   ` Érico Nogueira
2021-08-08 21:21     ` Jon Chesterfield
2021-08-08 23:05       ` Rich Felker
2021-08-09  6:03         ` Olivier Galibert
2021-08-09 17:27   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-08-08 20:28 ` Érico Nogueira
2021-08-18 17:36 Olivier Galibert
2021-08-18 20:18 ` Rich Felker

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