qsort_r() (was: Re: ldb and strict overflow)
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Wed Mar 28 01:19:37 UTC 2018
On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 09:15 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>
> The way the algorithm is implemented isn't really bad, just the code would
> need more tests and then some real cleanup. The libc qsort in various
> implementations have issues so it would be better to improve this algorithm
> and put it in a common place. However this function is public API, we can't
> really remove it.
Well, we can just leave it as a wrapper around qsort_r().
Our copy was just taken (under licence) from libc anyway.
Andrew Bartlett
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