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Questions - qsort

Why can `qsort` be called with a compare function with the wrong signature and compile has no warnings

I was working on consolidating a code base (moving a qsort compar function to a new header /library so that it could be shared without being copy/pasta) and noticed something strange in the process. H...
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Yeow_Meng

c

void-pointers

qsort

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The int record_compare_field_1(); declaration does not have a prototype. This is an obsolescent feature of the C17/C18 standard. In the function call qsort(database, 5, sizeof(Record), record_compare_...
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Ian Abbott

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