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45 .Fn radixsort "const u_char **base" "int nmemb" "u_char *table" "u_int endbyte"
47 .Fn sradixsort "const u_char **base" "int nmemb" "u_char *table" "u_int endbyte"
54 are implementations of radix sort.
56 These functions sort an
58 element array of pointers to byte strings, with
59 the initial member of which is referenced by
61 The byte strings may contain any values.
62 End of strings is denoted
63 by character which has same weight as user specified value
66 has to be between 0 and 255.
68 Applications may specify a sort order by providing the
74 must reference an array of
76 + 1 bytes which contains the sort
77 weight of each possible byte value.
78 The end-of-string byte must have a sort weight of 0 or 255
79 (for sorting in reverse order).
80 More than one byte may have the same sort weight.
84 is useful for applications which wish to sort different characters
85 equally, for example, providing a table with the same weights
86 for A-Z as for a-z will result in a case-insensitive sort.
89 is NULL, the contents of the array are sorted in ascending order
92 order of the byte strings they reference and
94 has a sorting weight of 0.
98 function is stable, that is, if two elements compare as equal, their
99 order in the sorted array is unchanged.
102 function uses additional memory sufficient to hold
108 function is not stable, but uses no additional memory.
110 These functions are variants of most-significant-byte radix sorting; in
111 particular, see D.E. Knuth's Algorithm R and section 5.2.5, exercise 10.
112 They take linear time relative to the number of bytes in the strings.
114 Upon successful completion 0 is returned.
115 Otherwise, \-1 is returned and the global variable
117 is set to indicate the error.
133 for any of the errors specified for the library routine
142 .%B "The Art of Computer Programming"
143 .%T "Sorting and Searching"
150 .%T "Three Partition Refinement Algorithms"
151 .%J "SIAM J. Comput."
158 .%B "Engineering Radix Sort"
159 .%T "Computing Systems"
166 function first appeared in