Bug#828766: liblucy-perl: please make the build reproducible

[Reiner Herrmann]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 02:15:32PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> As far as I understand qsort doc, you call this function with a array of 
> strings (char *), i.e. a char**.
> 
> cmpstringp is called with an object from the array, i.e. a void pointer to a 
> char *. I don't think dereferecing the pointer is safe.

The arguments to the comparison function are pointers to char* (i.e.
char**), so dereferencing them will pass the char* pointers from the
char **cfh_list list to strcmp.
It's passing pointers to the compared objects to the comparison function
as the objects don't necessarily need to be pointers.
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