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From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
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Subject: Re: sorting in C
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* Dan Arlow <dan@arlow.com> [2002-06-14 14:40 -0400]:
> dumb question: extra "&" in the previous post?
> 
> why do both this
> > qsort(&array, NUM_INTS, sizeof(*array),
> > (int (*)(const void *, const void *)) comp);
> and this
>   qsort(array, NUM_INTS, sizeof(*array),
>   (int (*)(const void *, const void *)) comp);
> 
> work properly? I tried both and both compile/run/sort fine.
> 
> (the difference afaik is that the first passes an *int[] aka int** and the
> second passes an int[] aka int*)

No, see http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q6.12.html

Nicolas

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