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author | Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org> | 2011-02-25 18:25:17 +0100 |
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committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org> | 2011-05-14 13:43:48 +0200 |
commit | c766e58acf3a894644291d21f9c98d322ef8cd11 (patch) | |
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download | libbsd-c766e58acf3a894644291d21f9c98d322ef8cd11.tar.gz |
Add man pages for heapsort and mergesort
Taken from FreeBSD, originally as qsort.3 but qsort references stripped.
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@@ -89,8 +89,10 @@ LIB_MANS := \ getpeereid.3 \ readpassphrase.3 \ reallocf.3 \ + heapsort.3 \ humanize_number.3 \ fmtcheck.3 \ + mergesort.3 \ nlist.3 \ pidfile.3 \ setmode.3 \ diff --git a/src/heapsort.3 b/src/heapsort.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf6ce7f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/heapsort.3 @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information +.\" Processing Systems. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)qsort.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd September 30, 2003 +.Dt QSORT 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm heapsort , mergesort +.Nd sort functions +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In stdlib.h +.Ft int +.Fo heapsort +.Fa "void *base" +.Fa "size_t nmemb" +.Fa "size_t size" +.Fa "int \*[lp]*compar\*[rp]\*[lp]const void *, const void *\*[rp]" +.Fc +.Ft int +.Fo mergesort +.Fa "void *base" +.Fa "size_t nmemb" +.Fa "size_t size" +.Fa "int \*[lp]*compar\*[rp]\*[lp]const void *, const void *\*[rp]" +.Fc +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn heapsort +function is a modified selection sort. +The +.Fn mergesort +function is a modified merge sort with exponential search +intended for sorting data with pre-existing order. +.Pp +The +.Fn heapsort +function sorts an array of +.Fa nmemb +objects, the initial member of which is pointed to by +.Fa base . +The size of each object is specified by +.Fa size . +The +.Fn mergesort +function +behaves similarly, but +.Em requires +that +.Fa size +be greater than +.Dq "sizeof(void *) / 2" . +.Pp +The contents of the array +.Fa base +are sorted in ascending order according to +a comparison function pointed to by +.Fa compar , +which requires two arguments pointing to the objects being +compared. +.Pp +The comparison function must return an integer less than, equal to, or +greater than zero if the first argument is considered to be respectively +less than, equal to, or greater than the second. +.Pp +The algorithm implemented by +.Fn heapsort +is +.Em not +stable, that is, if two members compare as equal, their order in +the sorted array is undefined. +The +.Fn mergesort +algorithm is stable. +.Pp +The +.Fn heapsort +function is an implementation of +.An "J.W.J. William" Ns 's +.Dq heapsort +algorithm, +a variant of selection sorting; in particular, see +.An "D.E. Knuth" Ns 's +.%T "Algorithm H" . +.Sy Heapsort +takes O N lg N worst-case time. +Its +.Em only +advantage over +.Fn qsort +is that it uses almost no additional memory; while +.Fn qsort +does not allocate memory, it is implemented using recursion. +.Pp +The function +.Fn mergesort +requires additional memory of size +.Fa nmemb * +.Fa size +bytes; it should be used only when space is not at a premium. +The +.Fn mergesort +function +is optimized for data with pre-existing order; its worst case +time is O N lg N; its best case is O N. +.Pp +Normally, +.Fn qsort +is faster than +.Fn mergesort +is faster than +.Fn heapsort . +Memory availability and pre-existing order in the data can make this +untrue. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Rv -std heapsort mergesort +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn heapsort +and +.Fn mergesort +functions succeed unless: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The +.Fa size +argument is zero, or, +the +.Fa size +argument to +.Fn mergesort +is less than +.Dq "sizeof(void *) / 2" . +.It Bq Er ENOMEM +The +.Fn heapsort +or +.Fn mergesort +functions +were unable to allocate memory. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr sort 1 , +.Xr radixsort 3 +.Rs +.%A Williams, J.W.J +.%D 1964 +.%T "Heapsort" +.%J "Communications of the ACM" +.%V 7:1 +.%P pp. 347-348 +.Re +.Rs +.%A Knuth, D.E. +.%D 1968 +.%B "The Art of Computer Programming" +.%V Vol. 3 +.%T "Sorting and Searching" +.%P pp. 114-123, 145-149 +.Re +.Rs +.%A McIlroy, P.M. +.%T "Optimistic Sorting and Information Theoretic Complexity" +.%J "Fourth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms" +.%V January 1992 +.Re +.Rs +.%A Bentley, J.L. +.%A McIlroy, M.D. +.%T "Engineering a Sort Function" +.%J "Software--Practice and Experience" +.%V Vol. 23(11) +.%P pp. 1249-1265 +.%D November\ 1993 +.Re diff --git a/src/mergesort.3 b/src/mergesort.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c1979c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/mergesort.3 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +.so man3/heapsort.3 |