don't compare elements with themselves during qsort.
authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:03:24 +0000 (00:03 -0500)
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:03:24 +0000 (00:03 -0500)
this is actually a workaround for a bug in gcc, whereby it asserts
inequality of the keys being compared...

src/stdlib/qsort.c

index f5bf3d0..91a3361 100644 (file)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static void sift(char *base, size_t root, size_t nel, size_t width, int (*cmp)(c
                max = 2*root;
                if (max < nel && cmp(base+max*width, base+(max+1)*width) < 0)
                        max++;
-               if (cmp(base+root*width, base+max*width) < 0) {
+               if (max && cmp(base+root*width, base+max*width) < 0) {
                        swap(base+root*width, base+max*width, width);
                        root = max;
                } else break;