gecko-dev/xpcom/glue/nsQuickSort.h

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/* We need this because Solaris' version of qsort is broken and
 * causes array bounds reads.
 */

#ifndef nsQuickSort_h___
#define nsQuickSort_h___

#include "nscore.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * Parameters:
 *  1. the array to sort
 *  2. the number of elements in the array
 *  3. the size of each array element
 *  4. comparison function taking two elements and parameter #5 and
 *     returning an integer:
 *      + less than zero if the first element should be before the second
 *      + 0 if the order of the elements does not matter
 *      + greater than zero if the second element should be before the first
 *  5. extra data to pass to comparison function
 */
NS_COM_GLUE void NS_QuickSort(void *, unsigned int, unsigned int,
                              int (*)(const void *, const void *, void *), 
                              void *);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* nsQuickSort_h___ */