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3 Contributed by Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>.
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25 #include "libiberty.h"
36 #define UCHAR_MAX ((unsigned char)(-1))
39 /* POINTERS and WORK are both arrays of N pointers. When this
40 function returns POINTERS will be sorted in ascending order. */
42 void sort_pointers (n, pointers, work)
47 /* The type of a single digit. This can be any unsigned integral
48 type. When changing this, DIGIT_MAX should be changed as
50 typedef unsigned char digit_t;
52 /* The maximum value a single digit can have. */
53 #define DIGIT_MAX (UCHAR_MAX + 1)
55 /* The Ith entry is the number of elements in *POINTERSP that have I
56 in the digit on which we are currently sorting. */
57 unsigned int count[DIGIT_MAX];
58 /* Nonzero if we are running on a big-endian machine. */
63 /* The algorithm used here is radix sort which takes time linear in
64 the number of elements in the array. */
66 /* The algorithm here depends on being able to swap the two arrays
67 an even number of times. */
68 if ((sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t)) % 2 != 0)
71 /* Figure out the endianness of the machine. */
72 for (i = 0, j = 0; i < sizeof (size_t); ++i)
77 big_endian_p = (((char *)&j)[0] == 0);
79 /* Move through the pointer values from least significant to most
80 significant digits. */
81 for (i = 0; i < sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t); ++i)
89 /* The offset from the start of the pointer will depend on the
90 endianness of the machine. */
92 j = sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t) - i;
96 /* Now, perform a stable sort on this digit. We use counting
98 memset (count, 0, DIGIT_MAX * sizeof (unsigned int));
100 /* Compute the address of the appropriate digit in the first and
101 one-past-the-end elements of the array. On a little-endian
102 machine, the least-significant digit is closest to the front. */
103 bias = ((digit_t *) pointers) + j;
104 top = ((digit_t *) (pointers + n)) + j;
106 /* Count how many there are of each value. At the end of this
107 loop, COUNT[K] will contain the number of pointers whose Ith
111 digit += sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t))
114 /* Now, make COUNT[K] contain the number of pointers whose Ith
115 digit is less than or equal to K. */
116 for (countp = count + 1; countp < count + DIGIT_MAX; ++countp)
117 *countp += countp[-1];
119 /* Now, drop the pointers into their correct locations. */
120 for (pointerp = pointers + n - 1; pointerp >= pointers; --pointerp)
121 work[--count[((digit_t *) pointerp)[j]]] = *pointerp;
123 /* Swap WORK and POINTERS so that POINTERS contains the sorted
131 /* Everything below here is a unit test for the routines in this
144 int main (int argc, char **argv)
157 pointers = xmalloc (k * sizeof (void *));
158 work = xmalloc (k * sizeof (void *));
160 for (i = 0; i < k; ++i)
162 pointers[i] = (void *) random ();
163 printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]);
166 sort_pointers (k, pointers, work);
168 printf ("\nSorted\n\n");
172 for (i = 0; i < k; ++i)
174 printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]);
175 if (i > 0 && (char*) pointers[i] < (char*) pointers[i - 1])