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3 Contributed by Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>.
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25 #include "libiberty.h"
30 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H
31 #include <sys/param.h>
41 #define UCHAR_MAX ((unsigned char)(-1))
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 (size_t n, void **pointers, void **work)
49 /* The type of a single digit. This can be any unsigned integral
50 type. When changing this, DIGIT_MAX should be changed as
52 typedef unsigned char digit_t;
54 /* The maximum value a single digit can have. */
55 #define DIGIT_MAX (UCHAR_MAX + 1)
57 /* The Ith entry is the number of elements in *POINTERSP that have I
58 in the digit on which we are currently sorting. */
59 unsigned int count[DIGIT_MAX];
60 /* Nonzero if we are running on a big-endian machine. */
65 /* The algorithm used here is radix sort which takes time linear in
66 the number of elements in the array. */
68 /* The algorithm here depends on being able to swap the two arrays
69 an even number of times. */
70 if ((sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t)) % 2 != 0)
73 /* Figure out the endianness of the machine. */
74 for (i = 0, j = 0; i < sizeof (size_t); ++i)
79 big_endian_p = (((char *)&j)[0] == 0);
81 /* Move through the pointer values from least significant to most
82 significant digits. */
83 for (i = 0; i < sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t); ++i)
91 /* The offset from the start of the pointer will depend on the
92 endianness of the machine. */
94 j = sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t) - i;
98 /* Now, perform a stable sort on this digit. We use counting
100 memset (count, 0, DIGIT_MAX * sizeof (unsigned int));
102 /* Compute the address of the appropriate digit in the first and
103 one-past-the-end elements of the array. On a little-endian
104 machine, the least-significant digit is closest to the front. */
105 bias = ((digit_t *) pointers) + j;
106 top = ((digit_t *) (pointers + n)) + j;
108 /* Count how many there are of each value. At the end of this
109 loop, COUNT[K] will contain the number of pointers whose Ith
113 digit += sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t))
116 /* Now, make COUNT[K] contain the number of pointers whose Ith
117 digit is less than or equal to K. */
118 for (countp = count + 1; countp < count + DIGIT_MAX; ++countp)
119 *countp += countp[-1];
121 /* Now, drop the pointers into their correct locations. */
122 for (pointerp = pointers + n - 1; pointerp >= pointers; --pointerp)
123 work[--count[((digit_t *) pointerp)[j]]] = *pointerp;
125 /* Swap WORK and POINTERS so that POINTERS contains the sorted
133 /* Everything below here is a unit test for the routines in this
140 void *xmalloc (size_t n)
145 int main (int argc, char **argv)
158 pointers = XNEWVEC (void*, k);
159 work = XNEWVEC (void*, k);
161 for (i = 0; i < k; ++i)
163 pointers[i] = (void *) random ();
164 printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]);
167 sort_pointers (k, pointers, work);
169 printf ("\nSorted\n\n");
173 for (i = 0; i < k; ++i)
175 printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]);
176 if (i > 0 && (char*) pointers[i] < (char*) pointers[i - 1])