Sorting anything with qsort
Jerry Ludwig
jludwig at pro-grouch.cts.com
Sun Mar 24 22:36:06 AEST 1991
Recently, (friday, that is) I finished my first program that sort using
qsort. The problem with sorting ANYTHING with qsort is that it wants an
array. I had to sort records in a file. Another problem is that qsort
takes only an unsigned int as the number of arguements and the files I had
to sort could easily be multiple megs (a record was only 14 bytes). Now
all of this was solved easily using multiple qsorts on records read into
a huge array and then merging the qsorts into the final file. But qsort is
not an end all for sorting ANYTHING by any stretch of the imagination.
qsort is a big help on almost all fixed size elements.
Your friendly Windows developer,
Jerry.
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