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Bug 531973 - Please document that g_list_sort is stable
Please document that g_list_sort is stable
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: docs
2.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-07 15:38 UTC by Josselin Mouette
Modified: 2011-11-20 15:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Josselin Mouette 2008-05-07 15:38:03 UTC 
Initial report : http://bugs.debian.org/479860

Currently, g_list_sort is a stable sort, but the documentation does not state it explicitly. It would be nice to state it and guarantee it in future evolutions of this function. The only evolution proposed, in bug#113203, does not question the need for it to be stable, so it would be good to have in the documentation so that applications can rely on it.
Comment 1 David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2011-10-13 20:26:01 UTC 
Discussed this on IRC with owen and we both agreed it would be helpful to state this guarantee in the docs.
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2011-10-14 12:24:53 UTC 
just do it...
Comment 3 Josselin Mouette 2011-11-20 15:57:04 UTC 
Pushed to master, thanks.