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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2023-11-21 16:45:35 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2023-11-21 16:46:18 +0100
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stdlib: The qsort implementation needs to use heapsort in more cases
The existing logic avoided internal stack overflow.  To avoid
a denial-of-service condition with adversarial input, it is necessary
to fall over to heapsort if tail-recursing deeply, too, which does
not result in a deep stack of pending partitions.

The new test stdlib/tst-qsort5 is based on Douglas McIlroy's paper
on this subject.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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