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jacob navia wrote:
> 
> Le 27/05/12 19:55, pete a écrit :
> > I think there's about a zillion combinations of (a) and (b),
> > where (a - b) has problems.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> You want to say then that it is not a good idea in C to write
> 
> a - b
> 
> ??

What I want to say, is that what you wrote:

    "With the generic qsort function 
     you would directly compare the data
     (without function calls) by specifying a macro
     for comparing your data. 
     For integers it would be simply

     a - b"

doesn't correspond to any notion 
of what "generic qsort function" could possibly mean.

-- 
pete