qsort() documentation
    Hans Petter Selasky 
    hps at selasky.org
       
    Mon Apr 18 11:40:24 UTC 2016
    
    
  
Hi,
Are there any objections adding the following as part of documenting our 
kernel's qsort function?
Index: sys/libkern/qsort.c
===================================================================
--- sys/libkern/qsort.c (revision 298202)
+++ sys/libkern/qsort.c (working copy)
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
  /*
   * Qsort routine from Bentley & McIlroy's "Engineering a Sort Function".
+ *
+ * NOTE: This implementation of qsort() was designed to not have the
+ * worst case complexity of N**2, as seen with the regular quick sort
+ * functions as described by Wikipedia.
   */
--HPS
    
    
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