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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Compiler design in C?
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:29:43 -0800
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 6:37:07 AM UTC-6, Anton Shepelev wrote:
>> One could save the calling of memcpy if one implemented
>> generic sorting via array  index  manipulation,  as  my
>> friend  had done in procedural Pascal.  He has used his
>> sorting unit ever since in all his code.
>
> Or if one is sorting an array of pointers and one is using a language or
> dialect that allows code to efficiently load and store items in an array
> of arbitrary pointer type without having to know or care about the target
> types of the pointers therein.

Or use an array of void*.

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