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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:04:16 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: Kbwms AT aol DOT com, dj AT delorie DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Much Improved Version of qsort
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote:
> 
> > I have finished work on a new version of qsort that is substantially
> > better that the current version in our library.
> 
> If nobody objects, I'd say let's go ahead and replace `qsort' with
> this version in v2.02.  Since `qsort' gets linked into every DJGPP
> program, it is a good idea to make it free of the BSD license, exactly
> like we did with `malloc'.

So it looks like the only BSD functions left are `random' and friends,
and the time functions in ansi/time/ctime.c.  I'm not sure what of this
is worth rewriting; in the first case, there is always `rand', and the
time stuff looks rather complicated.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com