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I have an application with several classes containing static compare
functions whose addresses I would like to pass to qsort.  When I
brought this issue up before a year or two ago, I was using C/Set and
there was no way to pass the address of a member function (with
System linkage, I think?) to qsort(), who was expecting function of
Optlink linkage.

Now I am using Visual Age C++ and was wondering if there is a new way
around this problem.  I know I can create a nonmember friend
function, but doing so would require modifying about 50 files, and I
was looking for a less painful solution.  (I know there may not be
any.)

Personally, I wouldn't mind making these modifications, but my client
would prefer a method more awkward, but requiring changes to fewer
files.

Currently we're using our own function taking the same parameters as
qsort, but implementing a simpler but slower algorithm.  Perhaps we
should just find some qsort source code and drop it in there?  Any 
suggestions on where to find such a thing?

Thanks.
- Keith

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Keith Bennett                             Bennett Business Solutions, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD USA                     OS/2 & DOS Software Development
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