On 2013-02-20 09:32, David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2013, at 08:25, m...@freebsd.org wrote:
> > These should be declared const int *.  And the cast shouldn't be
> > needed in C, since void * can be assigned to any other pointer type.
>
> In fact, the entire function body can be replaced with:
>
>   return (*(int*)p1 - *(int*)p2);
>
> qsort doesn't require that you return -1, 0, or 1, it requires you return <0, 
> 0, or >0.

That's true.  Since we are trying to document the interface, I'd prefer
if we don't compress the comparison too much.  Would something like this
be ok too?

int
int_compare(const void *p1, const void *p2)
{
    const int *left = p1;
    const int *right = p2;

    return (*left - *right);
}

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