It does two things:
1. It derives the element size from the array argument type
2. It derives the right type for the function from the array argument
type
Using this macro call should make the invocations of qsort() quite a bit
safer.
qsort(base, nmemb, size, compar);
}
+/* A wrapper around the above, but that adds typesafety: the element size is automatically derived from the type and so
+ * is the prototype for the comparison function */
+#define typesafe_qsort(p, n, func) \
+ ({ \
+ int (*_func_)(const typeof(p[0])*, const typeof(p[0])*) = func; \
+ qsort_safe((p), (n), sizeof((p)[0]), (__compar_fn_t) _func_); \
+ })
+
/**
* Normal memcpy requires src to be nonnull. We do nothing if n is 0.
*/