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+.\"     @(#)radixsort.3	8.2 (Berkeley) 1/27/94
+.\"
+.Dd January 27, 1994
+.Dt RADIXSORT 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm radixsort
+.Nd radix sort
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <limits.h>
+.Fd #include <stdlib.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn radixsort "u_char **base" "int nmemb" "u_char *table" "u_int endbyte"
+.Ft int
+.Fn sradixsort "u_char **base" "int nmemb" "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 pointers to byte strings, the initial
+member of which 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
+.Pf non- Dv 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 NULL, 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
+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
+Upon successful completion 0 is returned.
+Otherwise, \-1 is returned and the global variable 
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.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
+.Pp
+.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 4.4BSD.