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All of this just to avoid using qsort()?  Qsort isn't just more flexible,
it's also more more efficient.

What's the drawback to using qsort() that everyone's trying to avoid it?


> One thing I've done is to make sure I always declare numerics as signed
> instead of packed, then initialize the DS to *ALL'9'.  When filling the
> array, keep a counter of total elements, then loop through the range to
> process.
>
> Your post shows the main limitation that I've hit with this...  The max size
> of the DS is 64K which is a little confining....
>

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