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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man3/radixsort.3 b/static/openbsd/man3/radixsort.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7290142a --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man3/radixsort.3 @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" 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. +.\" 3. 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. +.\" +.\" $OpenBSD: radixsort.3,v 1.14 2022/08/04 06:20:24 jsg Exp $ +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 4 2022 $ +.Dt RADIXSORT 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm radixsort , +.Nm sradixsort +.Nd radix sort +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In limits.h +.In stdlib.h +.Ft int +.Fn radixsort "const u_char **base" "int nmemb" "const u_char *table" "u_int endbyte" +.Ft int +.Fn sradixsort "const u_char **base" "int nmemb" "const u_char *table" "u_int endbyte" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn radixsort +and +.Fn sradixsort +functions are implementations of radix sort. +.Pp +These functions sort an array of +.Fa nmemb +pointers to byte strings. +The initial member is referenced by +.Fa base . +The byte strings may contain any values; the end of each string +is denoted by the user-specified value +.Fa endbyte . +.Pp +Applications may specify a sort order by providing the +.Fa table +argument. +If non-null, +.Fa table +must reference an array of +.Dv UCHAR_MAX ++ 1 bytes which contains the sort weight of each possible byte value. +The end-of-string byte must have a sort weight of 0 or 255 +(for sorting in reverse order). +More than one byte may have the same sort weight. +The +.Fa table +argument is useful for applications which wish to sort different characters +equally; for example, providing a table with the same weights +for A\-Z as for a\-z will result in a case-insensitive sort. +If +.Fa table +is +.Dv NULL , +the contents of the array are sorted in ascending order according to the +ASCII order of the byte strings they reference and +.Fa endbyte +has a sorting weight of 0. +.Pp +The +.Fn sradixsort +function is stable; that is, if two elements compare as equal, their +order in the sorted array is unchanged. +The +.Fn sradixsort +function uses additional memory sufficient to hold +.Fa nmemb +pointers. +.Pp +The +.Fn radixsort +function is not stable, but uses no additional memory. +.Pp +These functions are variants of most-significant-byte radix sorting; in +particular, see D.E. Knuth's Algorithm R and section 5.2.5, exercise 10. +They take linear time relative to the number of bytes in the strings. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Rv -std +.Sh ERRORS +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The value of the +.Fa endbyte +element of +.Fa table +is not 0 or 255. +.El +.Pp +Additionally, the +.Fn sradixsort +function may fail and set +.Va errno +for any of the errors specified for the library routine +.Xr malloc 3 . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr sort 1 , +.Xr qsort 3 +.Rs +.%A Knuth, D.E. +.%D 1968 +.%B "The Art of Computer Programming" +.%T "Sorting and Searching" +.%V Vol. 3 +.%P pp. 170-178 +.Re +.Rs +.%A Paige, R. +.%D 1987 +.%T "Three Partition Refinement Algorithms" +.%J "SIAM J. Comput." +.%V Vol. 16 +.%N No. 6 +.Re +.Rs +.%A McIlroy, P. +.%D 1993 +.%B "Engineering Radix Sort" +.%T "Computing Systems" +.%V Vol. 6:1 +.%P pp. 5-27 +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn radixsort +function first appeared in +.Bx 4.3 Net/2 . |
