[Moderator's note: this defect report has been
 forwarded to the C++ committee. -moderator.]

Section 25.4 (C Library Algorithms) [lib.alg.c.library] describes bsearch
and qsort, from the C standard library. Paragraph 4 does not list any
restrictions on qsort, but it should limit the base parameter to point to POD.
Presumably, qsort sorts the array by copying bytes, which requires POD.
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