PR/37860 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/sort

[David Laight <dsl%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/37860; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <dsl%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%gnats.NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: PR/37860 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/sort
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:53:29 +0000

 Module Name:   src
 Committed By:  dsl
 Date:          Sat Aug 22 10:53:28 UTC 2009
 
 Modified Files:
        src/usr.bin/sort: append.c fields.c files.c fsort.c init.c msort.c
            sort.c sort.h
 
 Log Message:
 Rework the way sort generates sort keys:
 - If we generate a key, it is always sortable using memcmp()
 - If we are sorting the whole record, then a weight-table must be used
   during compares.
 - Major surgery to encoding of numbers to ensure unique keys for equal
   numeric values.  Reverse numerics are handled by inverting the sign.
 - Case folding (-f) is handled when the sort keys are generated. No other
   code has to care at all.
 - Key uniqueness (-u) is done during merge for large datasets. It only
   has to be done when writing the output file for small files.
   Since the file is in key order this is simple!
 Probably fixes all of: PR/27257 PR/25551 PR/22182 PR/31095 PR/30504
 PR/36816 PR/37860 PR/39308
 Also PR/18614 should no longer die, but a little more work needs to be
 done on the merging for very large files.
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.19 -r1.20 src/usr.bin/sort/append.c src/usr.bin/sort/init.c
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.24 -r1.25 src/usr.bin/sort/fields.c src/usr.bin/sort/sort.h
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.34 -r1.35 src/usr.bin/sort/files.c
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.38 -r1.39 src/usr.bin/sort/fsort.c
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.22 -r1.23 src/usr.bin/sort/msort.c
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.51 -r1.52 src/usr.bin/sort/sort.c
 
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