From: Nicholas Nethercote <njn@valgrind.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 02:15:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: update comments
X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_4_0~976
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fcb6ba0407356a9fbe5d327bac860d02568d8871;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git

update comments



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7543
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diff --git a/coregrind/m_libcbase.c b/coregrind/m_libcbase.c
index 3643bcef51..f63a0ed365 100644
--- a/coregrind/m_libcbase.c
+++ b/coregrind/m_libcbase.c
@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ Int VG_(log2) ( UInt x )
 }
 
 
-// Generic shell sort.  Like stdlib.h's qsort().
+// Generic quick sort.
 void VG_(ssort)( void* base, SizeT nmemb, SizeT size,
                  Int (*compar)(void*, void*) )
 {
diff --git a/include/pub_tool_libcbase.h b/include/pub_tool_libcbase.h
index 5b8cdadf4e..b2dc38804f 100644
--- a/include/pub_tool_libcbase.h
+++ b/include/pub_tool_libcbase.h
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ extern Int   VG_(memcmp) ( const void* s1, const void* s2, SizeT n );
    Misc useful functions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------ */
 
-/* Like qsort(), but does shell-sort.  The size==1/2/4 cases are specialised. */
+/* Like qsort().  The name VG_(ssort) is for historical reasons -- it used
+ * to be a shell sort, but is now a quicksort. */
 extern void VG_(ssort)( void* base, SizeT nmemb, SizeT size,
                         Int (*compar)(void*, void*) );