Re: Restrictions on qsort compare function?

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From: M. J. Saltzman
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:00

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msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>> >	!!sort_func(p1, p2) == -1 * !!sort_func(p2, p1)

>Better yet, you should have not have assumed that !!x would produce -1
>when x < 0.  <grin>

Oh, damn...  What could I possibly have been thinking?
-- 
		Matthew Saltzman
		Clemson University Math Sciences
		mjs@clemson.edu

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