Hi Andrew
Can you try the attached program (testqsort.c) out ?
It is the example I sent to Sun to illustrate the qsort problem.
I have tried compiling this in 64 bit mode with (with egcs) on Solaris 8
and get very similar behaviour to the 32 bit mode (i.e 100's of times slower
then the FreeBSD qsort).
It would be interested to see what you discover.
regards
Mark