Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cca!g-rh
From: g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Library sort routines
Message-ID: <31172@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 20 Jul 88 22:27:33 GMT
References: <483@proxftl.UUCP> <504@proxftl.UUCP>
Reply-To: g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM (Richard Harter)
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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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.
-- 

In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.
	Richard Harter, SMDS  Inc.