/* Sorting algorithms. Copyright (C) 2000-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>.This file is part of GNU CC.GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify itunder the terms of the GNU General Public License as published bythe Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)any later version.GNU CC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, butWITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNUGeneral Public License for more details.You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public Licensealong with GNU CC; see the file COPYING. If not, write tothe Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H#include "config.h"#endif#include "libiberty.h"#include "sort.h"#ifdef HAVE_LIMITS_H#include <limits.h>#endif#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H#include <sys/param.h>#endif#ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H#include <stdlib.h>#endif#ifdef HAVE_STRING_H#include <string.h>#endif#ifndef UCHAR_MAX#define UCHAR_MAX ((unsigned char)(-1))#endif/* POINTERS and WORK are both arrays of N pointers. When this function returns POINTERS will be sorted in ascending order. */void sort_pointers (size_t n, void **pointers, void **work){ /* The type of a single digit. This can be any unsigned integral type. When changing this, DIGIT_MAX should be changed as well. */ typedef unsigned char digit_t; /* The maximum value a single digit can have. */#define DIGIT_MAX (UCHAR_MAX + 1) /* The Ith entry is the number of elements in *POINTERSP that have I in the digit on which we are currently sorting. */ unsigned int count[DIGIT_MAX]; /* Nonzero if we are running on a big-endian machine. */ int big_endian_p; size_t i; size_t j; /* The algorithm used here is radix sort which takes time linear in the number of elements in the array. */ /* The algorithm here depends on being able to swap the two arrays an even number of times. */ if ((sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t)) % 2 != 0) abort (); /* Figure out the endianness of the machine. */ for (i = 0, j = 0; i < sizeof (size_t); ++i) { j *= (UCHAR_MAX + 1); j += i; } big_endian_p = (((char *)&j)[0] == 0); /* Move through the pointer values from least significant to most significant digits. */ for (i = 0; i < sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t); ++i) { digit_t *digit; digit_t *bias; digit_t *top; unsigned int *countp; void **pointerp; /* The offset from the start of the pointer will depend on the endianness of the machine. */ if (big_endian_p) j = sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t) - i; else j = i; /* Now, perform a stable sort on this digit. We use counting sort. */ memset (count, 0, DIGIT_MAX * sizeof (unsigned int)); /* Compute the address of the appropriate digit in the first and one-past-the-end elements of the array. On a little-endian machine, the least-significant digit is closest to the front. */ bias = ((digit_t *) pointers) + j; top = ((digit_t *) (pointers + n)) + j; /* Count how many there are of each value. At the end of this loop, COUNT[K] will contain the number of pointers whose Ith digit is K. */ for (digit = bias; digit < top; digit += sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t)) ++count[*digit]; /* Now, make COUNT[K] contain the number of pointers whose Ith digit is less than or equal to K. */ for (countp = count + 1; countp < count + DIGIT_MAX; ++countp) *countp += countp[-1]; /* Now, drop the pointers into their correct locations. */ for (pointerp = pointers + n - 1; pointerp >= pointers; --pointerp) work[--count[((digit_t *) pointerp)[j]]] = *pointerp; /* Swap WORK and POINTERS so that POINTERS contains the sorted array. */ pointerp = pointers; pointers = work; work = pointerp; }}/* Everything below here is a unit test for the routines in this file. */#ifdef UNIT_TEST#include <stdio.h>void *xmalloc (size_t n){ return malloc (n);}int main (int argc, char **argv){ int k; int result; size_t i; void **pointers; void **work; if (argc > 1) k = atoi (argv[1]); else k = 10; pointers = XNEWVEC (void*, k); work = XNEWVEC (void*, k); for (i = 0; i < k; ++i) { pointers[i] = (void *) random (); printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]); } sort_pointers (k, pointers, work); printf ("\nSorted\n\n"); result = 0; for (i = 0; i < k; ++i) { printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]); if (i > 0 && (char*) pointers[i] < (char*) pointers[i - 1]) result = 1; } free (pointers); free (work); return result;}#endif
/* Sorting algorithms.
Copyright (C) 2000-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Contributed by Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>.
This file is part of GNU CC.
GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
GNU CC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with GNU CC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endif
#include "libiberty.h"
#include "sort.h"
#ifdef HAVE_LIMITS_H
#include <limits.h>
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H
#include <sys/param.h>
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
#include <stdlib.h>
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
#include <string.h>
#endif
#ifndef UCHAR_MAX
#define UCHAR_MAX ((unsigned char)(-1))
#endif
/* POINTERS and WORK are both arrays of N pointers. When this
function returns POINTERS will be sorted in ascending order. */
void sort_pointers (size_t n, void **pointers, void **work)
{
/* The type of a single digit. This can be any unsigned integral
type. When changing this, DIGIT_MAX should be changed as
well. */
typedef unsigned char digit_t;
/* The maximum value a single digit can have. */
#define DIGIT_MAX (UCHAR_MAX + 1)
/* The Ith entry is the number of elements in *POINTERSP that have I
in the digit on which we are currently sorting. */
unsigned int count[DIGIT_MAX];
/* Nonzero if we are running on a big-endian machine. */
int big_endian_p;
size_t i;
size_t j;
/* The algorithm used here is radix sort which takes time linear in
the number of elements in the array. */
/* The algorithm here depends on being able to swap the two arrays
an even number of times. */
if ((sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t)) % 2 != 0)
abort ();
/* Figure out the endianness of the machine. */
for (i = 0, j = 0; i < sizeof (size_t); ++i)
{
j *= (UCHAR_MAX + 1);
j += i;
}
big_endian_p = (((char *)&j)[0] == 0);
/* Move through the pointer values from least significant to most
significant digits. */
for (i = 0; i < sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t); ++i)
{
digit_t *digit;
digit_t *bias;
digit_t *top;
unsigned int *countp;
void **pointerp;
/* The offset from the start of the pointer will depend on the
endianness of the machine. */
if (big_endian_p)
j = sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t) - i;
else
j = i;
/* Now, perform a stable sort on this digit. We use counting
sort. */
memset (count, 0, DIGIT_MAX * sizeof (unsigned int));
/* Compute the address of the appropriate digit in the first and
one-past-the-end elements of the array. On a little-endian
machine, the least-significant digit is closest to the front. */
bias = ((digit_t *) pointers) + j;
top = ((digit_t *) (pointers + n)) + j;
/* Count how many there are of each value. At the end of this
loop, COUNT[K] will contain the number of pointers whose Ith
digit is K. */
for (digit = bias;
digit < top;
digit += sizeof (void *) / sizeof (digit_t))
++count[*digit];
/* Now, make COUNT[K] contain the number of pointers whose Ith
digit is less than or equal to K. */
for (countp = count + 1; countp < count + DIGIT_MAX; ++countp)
*countp += countp[-1];
/* Now, drop the pointers into their correct locations. */
for (pointerp = pointers + n - 1; pointerp >= pointers; --pointerp)
work[--count[((digit_t *) pointerp)[j]]] = *pointerp;
/* Swap WORK and POINTERS so that POINTERS contains the sorted
array. */
pointerp = pointers;
pointers = work;
work = pointerp;
}
}
/* Everything below here is a unit test for the routines in this
file. */
#ifdef UNIT_TEST
#include <stdio.h>
void *xmalloc (size_t n)
{
return malloc (n);
}
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int k;
int result;
size_t i;
void **pointers;
void **work;
if (argc > 1)
k = atoi (argv[1]);
else
k = 10;
pointers = XNEWVEC (void*, k);
work = XNEWVEC (void*, k);
for (i = 0; i < k; ++i)
{
pointers[i] = (void *) random ();
printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]);
}
sort_pointers (k, pointers, work);
printf ("\nSorted\n\n");
result = 0;
for (i = 0; i < k; ++i)
{
printf ("%x\n", pointers[i]);
if (i > 0 && (char*) pointers[i] < (char*) pointers[i - 1])
result = 1;
}
free (pointers);
free (work);
return result;
}
#endif