2000-10-31 Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
[binutils.git] / libiberty / sort.c
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1 /* Sorting algorithms.
2 Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Contributed by Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>.
5 This file is part of GNU CC.
7 GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
8 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
10 any later version.
12 GNU CC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
13 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
15 General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with GNU CC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
19 the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
20 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
22 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
23 #include "config.h"
24 #endif
25 #include "libiberty.h"
26 #include "sort.h"
27 #ifdef HAVE_LIMITS_H
28 #include <limits.h>
29 #endif
30 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H
31 #include <sys/param.h>
32 #endif
33 #ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
34 #include <stdlib.h>
35 #endif
36 #ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
37 #include <string.h>
38 #endif
40 #ifndef UCHAR_MAX
41 #define UCHAR_MAX ((unsigned char)(-1))
42 #endif
44 /* POINTERS and WORK are both arrays of N pointers. When this
45 function returns POINTERS will be sorted in ascending order. */
47 void sort_pointers (n, pointers, work)
48 size_t n;
49 void **pointers;
50 void **work;
52 /* The type of a single digit. This can be any unsigned integral
53 type. When changing this, DIGIT_MAX should be changed as
54 well. */
55 typedef unsigned char digit_t;
57 /* The maximum value a single digit can have. */
58 #define DIGIT_MAX (UCHAR_MAX + 1)
60 /* The Ith entry is the number of elements in *POINTERSP that have I
61 in the digit on which we are currently sorting. */
62 unsigned int count[DIGIT_MAX];
63 /* Nonzero if we are running on a big-endian machine. */
64 int big_endian_p;
65 size_t i;
66 size_t j;
68 /* The algorithm used here is radix sort which takes time linear in
69 the number of elements in the array. */
71 /* The algorithm here depends on being able to swap the two arrays
72 an even number of times. */
73 if ((sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t)) % 2 != 0)
74 abort ();
76 /* Figure out the endianness of the machine. */
77 for (i = 0, j = 0; i < sizeof (size_t); ++i)
79 j *= (UCHAR_MAX + 1);
80 j += i;
82 big_endian_p = (((char *)&j)[0] == 0);
84 /* Move through the pointer values from least significant to most
85 significant digits. */
86 for (i = 0; i < sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t); ++i)
88 digit_t *digit;
89 digit_t *bias;
90 digit_t *top;
91 unsigned int *countp;
92 void **pointerp;
94 /* The offset from the start of the pointer will depend on the
95 endianness of the machine. */
96 if (big_endian_p)
97 j = sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t) - i;
98 else
99 j = i;
101 /* Now, perform a stable sort on this digit. We use counting
102 sort. */
103 memset (count, 0, DIGIT_MAX * sizeof (unsigned int));
105 /* Compute the address of the appropriate digit in the first and
106 one-past-the-end elements of the array. On a little-endian
107 machine, the least-significant digit is closest to the front. */
108 bias = ((digit_t *) pointers) + j;
109 top = ((digit_t *) (pointers + n)) + j;
111 /* Count how many there are of each value. At the end of this
112 loop, COUNT[K] will contain the number of pointers whose Ith
113 digit is K. */
114 for (digit = bias;
115 digit < top;
116 digit += sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t))
117 ++count[*digit];
119 /* Now, make COUNT[K] contain the number of pointers whose Ith
120 digit is less than or equal to K. */
121 for (countp = count + 1; countp < count + DIGIT_MAX; ++countp)
122 *countp += countp[-1];
124 /* Now, drop the pointers into their correct locations. */
125 for (pointerp = pointers + n - 1; pointerp >= pointers; --pointerp)
126 work[--count[((digit_t *) pointerp)[j]]] = *pointerp;
128 /* Swap WORK and POINTERS so that POINTERS contains the sorted
129 array. */
130 pointerp = pointers;
131 pointers = work;
132 work = pointerp;
136 /* Everything below here is a unit test for the routines in this
137 file. */
139 #ifdef UNIT_TEST
141 #include <stdio.h>
143 void *xmalloc (n)
144 size_t n;
146 return malloc (n);
149 int main (int argc, char **argv)
151 int k;
152 int result;
153 size_t i;
154 void **pointers;
155 void **work;
157 if (argc > 1)
158 k = atoi (argv[1]);
159 else
160 k = 10;
162 pointers = xmalloc (k * sizeof (void *));
163 work = xmalloc (k * sizeof (void *));
165 for (i = 0; i < k; ++i)
167 pointers[i] = (void *) random ();
168 printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]);
171 sort_pointers (k, pointers, work);
173 printf ("\nSorted\n\n");
175 result = 0;
177 for (i = 0; i < k; ++i)
179 printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]);
180 if (i > 0 && (char*) pointers[i] < (char*) pointers[i - 1])
181 result = 1;
184 free (pointers);
185 free (work);
187 return result;
190 #endif