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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-20 13:50:04 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-20 13:50:04 +0000
commitba6b056376adedc82f4ac0f41b5eed2fa3f30c75 (patch)
treee5c095a3d4f9afb3b98cca651e27f12c8880ffbd /lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3
parent51643f419480d5bdfbed4ef6c16cf20340d8a357 (diff)
Flesh out stdlib function man pages.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.317
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3
index a1a4ee4eabf..64cc841a49f 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: radixsort.3,v 1.5 1999/06/29 18:36:22 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: radixsort.3,v 1.6 2000/04/20 13:50:02 aaron Exp $
.\"
.Dd January 27, 1994
.Dt RADIXSORT 3
@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ The
.Fn radixsort
and
.Fn sradixsort
-functions
-are implementations of radix sort.
+functions are implementations of radix sort.
.Pp
These functions sort an array of pointers to byte strings, the initial
member of which is referenced by
@@ -66,23 +65,20 @@ 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.
++ 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
+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
+the contents of the array are sorted in ascending order according to the
.Tn ASCII
order of the byte strings they reference and
.Fa endbyte
@@ -122,8 +118,7 @@ is not 0 or 255.
.Pp
Additionally, the
.Fn sradixsort
-function
-may fail and set
+function may fail and set
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the library routine
.Xr malloc 3 .