The dump and irregular classes were using qsort() from the C-library
for sorting lists through custom comparison functions, which required
access to additional data, which was passed via static class variables,
i.e. globals. This collides with having multiple LAMMPS instances in
the same address space.
the calls to qsort() are replaced with a custom merge sort, which passes
a void pointer to the comparison functions, which can contain any kind
of desired information, e.g. a class handle or a list
