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commit f5f46d51f75083e27fae79cee6cd7707888faba3
Author: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
Date:   Wed Jul 2 21:17:50 2014 -0400

    manual: Remove incorrect claim that qsort() can be stabilized
    
    Under certain conditions on the size of the array and its items,
    qsort() may fall back to an in-place quicksort if it cannot allocate
    memory for a temporary array with malloc().  This algorithm is not a
    stable sort even if the comparison function is written in the
    described manner.
    
    Fixes #10672.
    
    Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c2d99a0..bf140d3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2014-12-10  Anders Kaseorg  <andersk@MIT.EDU>
+
+	[BZ #10672]
+	* manual/search.texi: (Array Sort Function): Remove claim how make
+	qsort stable.
+
 2014-12-10  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
 
 	[BZ #12847]
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7b32c03..4235d37 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ Version 2.21
 
 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
-  6652, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498, 15215, 15884,
-  16469, 16619, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17344, 17363, 17370, 17371,
-  17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555, 17570,
-  17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17581, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
-  17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17633, 17647, 17653, 17664, 17665,
-  17668, 17682.
+  6652, 10672, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498, 15215,
+  15884, 16469, 16619, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17344, 17363, 17370,
+  17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
+  17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17581, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585,
+  17589, 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17633, 17647, 17653, 17664,
+  17665, 17668, 17682.
 
 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
   under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
diff --git a/manual/search.texi b/manual/search.texi
index 509a543..8aff574 100644
--- a/manual/search.texi
+++ b/manual/search.texi
@@ -180,11 +180,10 @@ This can make a difference when the comparison considers only part of
 the elements.  Two elements with the same sort key may differ in other
 respects.
 
-If you want the effect of a stable sort, you can get this result by
-writing the comparison function so that, lacking other reason
-distinguish between two elements, it compares them by their addresses.
-Note that doing this may make the sorting algorithm less efficient, so
-do it only if necessary.
+The addresses passed to the comparison function need not correspond with
+the original location of the objects, and need not even lie within the
+original array.  The only way to perform a stable sort with @var{qsort}
+is to first augment the objects with a monotonic counter of some kind.
 
 Here is a simple example of sorting an array of doubles in numerical
 order, using the comparison function defined above (@pxref{Comparison

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog          |    6 ++++++
 NEWS               |   12 ++++++------
 manual/search.texi |    9 ++++-----
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