wp-includes/class-wp.php:693Set up the Loop based on the query variables.
public function query_posts() { global $wp_the_query; $this->build_query_string(); $wp_the_query->query( $this->query_vars ); }Introduced in 2.0.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/class-wp.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.