avoid crashing when nel==0 is passed to qsort

diff --git a/src/stdlib/qsort.c b/src/stdlib/qsort.c
index 866af0ecd6c2a394f896a8e3d8a0403e9da94577..434d9350726df8413295db92846d37ac7f63a2f4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/stdlib/qsort.c
+++ b/src/stdlib/qsort.c
@@ -155,12 +155,16 @@ void qsort(void *base, size_t nel, size_t width, cmpfun cmp)
 {
        size_t lp[12*sizeof(size_t)];
        size_t i, size = width * nel;
-       unsigned char *head = base,
-                     *high = head + size - width;
+       unsigned char *head, *high;
        size_t p[2] = {1, 0};
        int pshift = 1;
        int trail;
 
+       if (!size) return;
+
+       head = base;
+       high = head + size - width;
+
        /* Precompute Leonardo numbers, scaled by element width */
        for(lp[0]=lp[1]=width, i=2; (lp[i]=lp[i-2]+lp[i-1]+width) < size; i++);