Enhancement

- Corrected sorting to use std::stable_sort instead of std::sort, which is not
  guaranteed stable (thanks to Stefan Hacker).

AUTHORS

@@ -79,4 +79,5 @@ suggestions:
   Patrick R McDonald
   Pete Lewis
   Bryce Harrington
+  Stefan Hacker
 

ChangeLog

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 2.0.0 ()
  + autoconf eliminated.
+ + Corrected sorting to use std::stable_sort instead of std::sort, which is not
+   guaranteed stable (thanks to Stefan Hacker).
 
 ------ old releases ------------------------------
 

src/Table.cpp

@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ const std::string Table::render (int maxrows /* = 0 */, int maxlines /* = 0 */)
     if (mSortColumns.size ())
     {
       table = this;  // Substitute for 'this' in the static 'sort_compare'.
-      std::sort (order.begin (), order.end (), sort_compare);
+      std::stable_sort (order.begin (), order.end (), sort_compare);
     }
   }