Hi Corinna, Just sharing info (to save you the trouble searching it) ... Full stop.
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2013-q1/msg00022.html (to which you replied) - Qsort defects (in C-library) by Dennis de Champeaux https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2013/msg00087.html (to which Eric Blake replied) - Qsort defects by Dennis de Champeaux http://www.ontooo.com/DesignChoices.pdf - Design choices in the Quicksort family with empirical comparisons - by Dennis de Champeaux http://cs.fit.edu/~pkc/classes/writing/samples/bentley93engineering.pdf - Engineering a Sort Function - by JON L. BENTLEY and M. DOUGLAS McILROY - AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, U.S.A Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple