if you look at his original call to Qsort he IS passing it a count. he is passing it "i" which is counted during a for loop prior to the Qsort call.
-V ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dale Kingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Qsort > > --- Dale Kingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I asked, cause I simply changed the return 2 and return 1 to 1 and -1 and > > it's working fine. So I don't see why I need to allocate an array for it to > > work with. ESP an allocated array that isn't freed when it's finished so > > with that I've allocated the needed memory for the helps twice havn't i? > > Sorry, As I said I was doing too many things at once. You should obviously free > the array before the function exits with a free_mem(help_array) before the > function exits. > > That said, you still have to pass qsort an array, not a linked list. I have no > idea why your program isn't crashing horribly, but the result of passing a > non-array to qsort is undefined. > > Since you don't know at the point where you call qsort how many helps you have, > you have to count them, allocate an array to store the pointers in, and push > the linked list into the newly allocated array. > > The only time you wouldn't need to allocate an array is if your helps are > already stored in an array (rather than a linked list). This would not be very > flexable however, so the method I'd previously described would be best. > > ~Kender > > ===== > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version 3.1 > GCS/L/C/O d-(+) s++: a-- C+++$>++++ UBLS++++$ > P+++(--)$ L+++>++++ E--- W+>++$ N !o K? w(--) !O > M- !V PS+ PE(++) Y+ PGP->+ t+ 5 X+() R(+) tv+@ > b++(+++) !DI+++ D G(-) e>+++$ h---() r+++ y+++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >
