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-rw-r--r--commit.c4
-rw-r--r--mergesort.c8
-rw-r--r--mergesort.h16
-rw-r--r--test-mergesort.c2
4 files changed, 19 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 0759b2ca65..84304c00ff 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -429,8 +429,8 @@ static void commit_list_set_next(void *a, void *next)
void commit_list_sort_by_date(struct commit_list **list)
{
- *list = mergesort(*list, commit_list_get_next, commit_list_set_next,
- commit_list_compare_by_date);
+ *list = llist_mergesort(*list, commit_list_get_next, commit_list_set_next,
+ commit_list_compare_by_date);
}
struct commit *pop_most_recent_commit(struct commit_list **list,
diff --git a/mergesort.c b/mergesort.c
index d084c602d5..e5fdf2ee4a 100644
--- a/mergesort.c
+++ b/mergesort.c
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ static void *pop_item(struct mergesort_sublist *l,
return p;
}
-void *mergesort(void *list,
- void *(*get_next_fn)(const void *),
- void (*set_next_fn)(void *, void *),
- int (*compare_fn)(const void *, const void *))
+void *llist_mergesort(void *list,
+ void *(*get_next_fn)(const void *),
+ void (*set_next_fn)(void *, void *),
+ int (*compare_fn)(const void *, const void *))
{
unsigned long l;
diff --git a/mergesort.h b/mergesort.h
index d6e5f4a732..644cff1f96 100644
--- a/mergesort.h
+++ b/mergesort.h
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
#ifndef MERGESORT_H
#define MERGESORT_H
-void *mergesort(void *list,
- void *(*get_next_fn)(const void *),
- void (*set_next_fn)(void *, void *),
- int (*compare_fn)(const void *, const void *));
+/*
+ * Sort linked list in place.
+ * - get_next_fn() returns the next element given an element of a linked list.
+ * - set_next_fn() takes two elements A and B, and makes B the "next" element
+ * of A on the list.
+ * - compare_fn() takes two elements A and B, and returns negative, 0, positive
+ * as the same sign as "subtracting" B from A.
+ */
+void *llist_mergesort(void *list,
+ void *(*get_next_fn)(const void *),
+ void (*set_next_fn)(void *, void *),
+ int (*compare_fn)(const void *, const void *));
#endif
diff --git a/test-mergesort.c b/test-mergesort.c
index 1dd82fd67f..3f388b4ce0 100644
--- a/test-mergesort.c
+++ b/test-mergesort.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
p = line;
}
- lines = mergesort(lines, get_next, set_next, compare_strings);
+ lines = llist_mergesort(lines, get_next, set_next, compare_strings);
while (lines) {
printf("%s", lines->text);