Re: [PHP4BETA] rsort() bug?

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Sascha Schumann wrote: > The problem is the behaviour of compare_function. > > For "100" and 10, it says "100" > 10 > > For "100" and "abc", it says "100" < abc > > For "abc" and "10", it says "abc" < 10 > > This is correct, if you look at each decision. But that leads to: > > 100 < abc < 10 > > and > > 10 < 100 > > Solaris' qsort does not like that. We cannot change > compare_function, because that would break thousands of scripts. > rsort() should not use qsort. All *sort() functions that use compare_function() should not use qsort(). I'll change them to use mergesort() instead. -Andrei "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein