Function-types: compatability, and typedefs

[Richard O'Keefe]

In article <1989Sep1.113440.28300 at jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, flaps at dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
> ok at cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
> >What you need is
> >    int strptrcmp(char **s1, char **s2)
> >	{ return strcmp(*s1, *s2); }

> Actually, you should write
>     int strptrcmp(void *s1, void *s2)
>	{ return(strcmp(*(char **)s1, *(char **)s2)); }

Sorry; I was working from an old manual with char *base and so on.
I haven't got a current AN$I C draft: too co$tly.

If you're sorting an array of numbers, a half-way decent radix sort will
GROSSLY outperform qsort(), and if you're sorting anything else qsort()
is too inefficient anyway.