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From: daved@physiol.su.oz (Dave Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: qsort() - HELP
Message-ID: <988@physiol.su.oz>
Date: 15 Feb 90 02:08:36 GMT
References: <5916@ozdaltx.UUCP> <144@spodv5.UUCP>
Organization: Physiology Dept., Univ. of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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jha@spodv5.UUCP (Johan Harsta) writes:

|In article <5916@ozdaltx.UUCP>, root@ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:
|> After going over the manuals more times than I'd like, I still can't
|> figure out how to get qsort() (S) to operate.  The example shows

|E.g.:
|	struct ELEMENT buffer[nele];

|	sort_buf (&buffer[0], nele);

|	void
|	sort_buffer (base, nele)
|		struct ELEMENT *base;
|		int nele;
|	{	

					/*****************************/
		int sorting_alg();	/**** needs this declaration */
					/*****************************/

|		qsort ((char *) base, 
|			(unsigned) nele, 
|			(unsigned) sizeof (struct ELEMENT),
|			sorting_alg);
|		return;
|	}