From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Function Pointers with Classes and QSORT
Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:12:53 -0800
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Thomas Demmer wrote:

> I am not sure if this can work at all. I believe every class
> member function has a hidden parameter, the "this"-variable.
> And as qsort() as a normal C function doesn't know anything
> about classes, this will probably always fail.

qsort requires function pointers, and the names of member functions are
member function pointers, not function pointers.  One can use static
member functions as the contents of a normal C-style member function
pointer, though.

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