cosmopolitan/libc/calls/hefty/sortenvp.c

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│ Copyright 2020 Justine Alexandra Roberts Tunney                              │
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#include "libc/alg/alg.h"
#include "libc/alg/arraylist.internal.h"
#include "libc/calls/hefty/ntspawn.h"
#include "libc/dce.h"
#include "libc/str/str.h"

static int CompareStrings(const char *l, const char *r) {
  size_t i = 0;
  while (l[i] == r[i] && r[i]) ++i;
  return (l[i] & 0xff) - (r[i] & 0xff);
}

static void SortStrings(char **a, size_t n) {
  char *t;
  size_t i, j;
  for (i = 1; i < n; ++i) {
    for (t = a[i], j = i; j > 0 && CompareStrings(t, a[j - 1]) < 0; --j) {
      a[j] = a[j - 1];
    }
    a[j] = t;
  }
}

/**
 * Copies environment variable pointers and sorts them.
 *
 * This is useful for (a) binary searching; and (b) keeping the NT
 * Executive happy, which wants strings to be ordered by UNICODE
 * codepoint identifiers. That's basically what uint8_t comparisons on
 * UTF8-encoded data gives us.
 *
 * @param envp is a NULL-terminated string array
 * @return newly allocated sorted copy of envp pointer array
 */
hidden textwindows nodiscard char **sortenvp(char *const envp[]) {
  char **copy;
  size_t n, size;
  n = 0;
  while (envp[n]) n++;
  size = (n + 1) * sizeof(char *);
  if ((copy = malloc(size))) {
    memcpy(copy, envp, size);
    SortStrings(copy, n);
  }
  return copy;
}