C

Why does qsort work while bsearch causes a segmentation fault when they both have the same arguments?

char *word
...
qsort(dictionary, dictionarySize, sizeof(char *), dict_compare);

bsearch(word, dictionary, dictionarySize, sizeof(char *), dict_compare);

It works if I replace bsearch with manually stepping through the array. Any ideas?

OP here

Turns out I had to use
bsearch(&word, dictionary, dictionarySize, sizeof(char *), dict_compare);

I don't even know why. In every example I've seen they didn't need to do that. What the fuck.