demo for using of qsort from lib and a little problem with it_(re)

Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:27:54 +0200 (MEST)

According to Sven Hilscher:
> According to myself (Peter Gerwinski):
> >
> > Better say `cmp: Pointer' here because you don't really know the
> > type of the function `cmp' is pointing to.
> 
> No - IMHO qsort need always a function (cmp) that return an Integer, but  
> the parameters/arguments of this function are pointers on different types.

True, but your `FuncType' points to a *parameterless* function which
returns an integer.  This is certainly a type conflict with the actual
functions.

> You found also the reason for the crash on sorting a "array of Byte"?

I cannot reproduce this one - neither with gpc-970714 nor with my current
development GPC.  :-(  With which version and on which platform does it
occur?

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201]
 maintainer GNU Pascal [970714] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]

Peter Gerwinski (peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de)