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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/qsort.c35
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/qsort.c b/lib/libc/stdlib/qsort.c
index f16f9d0ebf8..c97979ef01f 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/qsort.c
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/qsort.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: qsort.c,v 1.14 2017/01/04 15:20:30 millert Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: qsort.c,v 1.15 2017/05/17 16:58:20 millert Exp $ */
/*-
* Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
* The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ qsort(void *aa, size_t n, size_t es, int (*cmp)(const void *, const void *))
{
char *pa, *pb, *pc, *pd, *pl, *pm, *pn;
int cmp_result, swaptype;
- size_t d, r;
+ size_t d, r, s;
char *a = aa;
loop: SWAPINIT(a, es);
@@ -139,14 +139,29 @@ loop: SWAPINIT(a, es);
vecswap(a, pb - r, r);
r = min(pd - pc, pn - pd - es);
vecswap(pb, pn - r, r);
- if ((r = pb - pa) > es)
- qsort(a, r / es, es, cmp);
- if ((r = pd - pc) > es) {
- /* Iterate rather than recurse to save stack space */
- a = pn - r;
- n = r / es;
- goto loop;
+ /*
+ * To save stack space we sort the smaller side of the partition first
+ * using recursion and eliminate tail recursion for the larger side.
+ */
+ r = pb - pa;
+ s = pd - pc;
+ if (r < s) {
+ /* Recurse for 1st side, iterate for 2nd side. */
+ if (s > es) {
+ if (r > es)
+ qsort(a, r / es, es, cmp);
+ a = pn - s;
+ n = s / es;
+ goto loop;
+ }
+ } else {
+ /* Recurse for 2nd side, iterate for 1st side. */
+ if (r > es) {
+ if (s > es)
+ qsort(pn - s, s / es, es, cmp);
+ n = r / es;
+ goto loop;
+ }
}
-/* qsort(pn - r, r / es, es, cmp);*/
}
DEF_STRONG(qsort);