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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Jon Chesterfield <jonathanchesterfield@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:27:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: [musl] [PATCH] stdlib: implement qsort_r

* 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