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NAME

qsort – quicker sort

SYNOPSIS

#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>

void qsort(void *base, long nel, long width, int (*compar)(void*, void*))

DESCRIPTION

Qsort (quicker sort) sorts an array into nondecreasing order. The first argument is a pointer to the base of the data; the second is the number of elements; the third is the width of an element in bytes; the last is the name of a comparison routine to be called with pointers to elements being compared. The routine must return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than 0 according as the first argument is to be considered less than, equal to, or greater than the second.

SOURCE

/sys/src/libc/port/qsort.c

SEE ALSO

sort(1)