/* msort -- an alternative to qsort, with an identical interface. Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Mike Haertel, September 1988. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library 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 Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ #include #include #include #define MEMCPY(dst, src, s) \ ((s) == sizeof (int) \ ? (*(int *) (dst) = *(int *) (src), (dst)) \ : memcpy (dst, src, s)) static void DEFUN(msort_with_tmp, (b, n, s, cmp, t), PTR b AND size_t n AND size_t s AND __compar_fn_t cmp AND char *t) { char *tmp; char *b1, *b2; size_t n1, n2; if (n <= 1) return; n1 = n / 2; n2 = n - n1; b1 = b; b2 = (char *) b + (n1 * s); msort_with_tmp (b1, n1, s, cmp, t); msort_with_tmp (b2, n2, s, cmp, t); tmp = t; while (n1 > 0 && n2 > 0) { if ((*cmp) (b1, b2) <= 0) { MEMCPY (tmp, b1, s); b1 += s; --n1; } else { MEMCPY (tmp, b2, s); b2 += s; --n2; } tmp += s; } if (n1 > 0) memcpy (tmp, b1, n1 * s); memcpy (b, t, (n - n2) * s); } void DEFUN(qsort, (b, n, s, cmp), PTR b AND size_t n AND size_t s AND __compar_fn_t cmp) { CONST size_t size = n * s; if (size < 1024) /* The temporary array is small, so put it on the stack. */ msort_with_tmp (b, n, s, cmp, __alloca (size)); else { /* It's somewhat large, so malloc it. */ int save = errno; char *tmp = malloc (size); if (tmp == NULL) { /* Couldn't get space, so use the slower algorithm that doesn't need a temporary array. */ extern void EXFUN(_quicksort, (PTR __base, size_t __nmemb, size_t __size, __compar_fn_t __compar)); _quicksort (b, n, s, cmp); } else { msort_with_tmp (b, n, s, cmp, tmp); free (tmp); } errno = save; } }