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Subject: Re: [hwloc-devel] "compar"
From: Brice Goglin (Brice.Goglin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-16 01:27:34

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Jeff Squyres wrote:
> I see two functions in cpuset.h:
>
> ----
> int hwloc_cpuset_compar_first(hwloc_const_cpuset_t set1, hwloc_const_cpuset_t set2);
>
> int hwloc_cpuset_compar(hwloc_const_cpuset_t set1, hwloc_const_cpuset_t set2);
> -----
>
> Did you really mean "compare"? Or was the extra "e" just too long? ;-)
>

I don't have anything against "compare" but I'd like to understand why
many functions like "qsort" take a comparison function that is often
named "compar" without an "e" :)

Brice

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