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Re: pointer comparison breaks Solaris' qsort


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:35:03PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: binutils-owner On Behalf Of Alexandre Oliva
> > Sent: 09 June 2004 12:29
> 
> > Maybe if you can point me at the other chunk of code you have in mind,
> > I could volunteer to fix this other bug, but conditioning the
> > acceptance of a correct patch that fixes a bug on fixing some other
> > bug is not reasonable IMHO.
> 
> .... unless consistency between the two pieces of code is a vital
> requirement, n'est-ce pas?

Exactly.  Alex, the other chunk of code is in the block immediately
after the qsort that uses elf_sort_symbol.  If you sort the array
differently (your change to elf_sort_symbol), you'd better also do the
binary search in the same way.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre


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