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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Function-types: compatability, and typedefs
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Date: 1 Sep 89 17:06:16 GMT
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ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
> and pass that as the fourth argument.  I can't think of any case where it
> would make sense to pass strcmp to qsort().

When you have an array of fixed sized buffers (strings),
e.g. char strings[20][30].

It's not particularly *efficient* to do this, but it is correct...