On Saturday, June 08, 2013 10:30:52 Stephan Schiffels wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know it has been discussed previously to deprecate the builtin
> sort. I don't know the status of this, but I observed the
> following problem.
>
> With dmd, druntime and phobos all on 2.063, this program runs
> successfully on a mac:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env rdmd
>
> import std.stdio;
>
> void main() {
>
> int[] a = [5, 4, 3, 2, 1];
>
> a.sort;
> writeln(a);
>
> }
>
> But it fails on linux, with the line:
>
>
> /nfs/users/nfs_s/ss27/Software/dlang/phobos/generated/linux/release/64/libph
> obos2.a(qsort_4c4_2cc.o): In function `_adSort':
> src/rt/qsort.d:(.text._adSort+0x47): undefined reference to
> `qsort_r'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> --- errorlevel 1
>
>
> When I change "a.sort" -> "a.sort()" and add import std.algorithm
> everything works fine.
> Does this mean that the builtin sort on Linux is broken with
> 2.063?
Hmm, it works just fine on my system (64-bit Linux), so I don't know why you're
seeing the problem that you're seeing.
However, we really, really need to deprecate the built-in sort - especially
when a pair of parens can make the difference between whether you call the
built-in sort or std.algorithm's sort - and it's particularly broken with
regards to Unicode.
- Jonathan M Davis
