/* sort.c -- Sort without allocating memory
- Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Ian Lance Taylor, Google.
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if (count < 2)
return;
+ /* The symbol table and DWARF tables, which is all we use this
+ routine for, tend to be roughly sorted. Pick the middle element
+ in the array as our pivot point, so that we are more likely to
+ cut the array in half for each recursion step. */
+ swap (base, base + (count / 2) * size, size);
+
mid = 0;
for (i = 1; i < count; i++)
{