#!./perl # This tests the behavior of sort() under the different 'use sort' forms. # Algorithm by John P. Linderman. my ($BigWidth, $BigEnough, $RootWidth, $ItemFormat, @TestSizes, $WellSoaked); BEGIN { chdir 't' if -d 't'; @INC = qw(../lib); $BigWidth = 6; # Digits in $BigEnough-1 $BigEnough = 10**$BigWidth; # Largest array we'll attempt $RootWidth = int(($BigWidth+1)/2); # Digits in sqrt($BigEnough-1) $ItemFormat = "%0${RootWidth}d%0${BigWidth}d"; # Array item format @TestSizes = (0, 1, 2); # Small special cases # Testing all the way up to $BigEnough takes too long # for casual testing. There are some cutoffs (~256) # in pp_sort that should be tested, but 10_000 is ample. $WellSoaked = 10_000; # <= $BigEnough for (my $ts = 3; $ts < $WellSoaked; $ts *= 10**(1/3)) { push(@TestSizes, int($ts)); # about 3 per decade } } use strict; use warnings; use Test::More; # Generate array of specified size for testing sort. # # We ensure repeated items, where possible, by drawing the $size items # from a pool of size sqrt($size). Each randomly chosen item is # tagged with the item index, so we can detect original input order, # and reconstruct the original array order. sub genarray { my $size = int(shift); # fractions not welcome my ($items, $i); my @a; if ($size < 0) { $size = 0; } # avoid complexity with sqrt elsif ($size > $BigEnough) { $size = $BigEnough; } $#a = $size - 1; # preallocate array $items = int(sqrt($size)); # number of distinct items for ($i = 0; $i < $size; ++$i) { $a[$i] = sprintf($ItemFormat, int($items * rand()), $i); } return \@a; } # Check for correct order (including stability) sub checkorder { my $aref = shift; my $status = ''; # so far, so good my ($i, $disorder); for ($i = 0; $i < $#$aref; ++$i) { # Equality shouldn't happen, but catch it in the contents check next if ($aref->[$i] le $aref->[$i+1]); $disorder = (substr($aref->[$i], 0, $RootWidth) eq substr($aref->[$i+1], 0, $RootWidth)) ? "Instability" : "Disorder"; # Keep checking if merely unstable... disorder is much worse. $status = "$disorder at element $i between $aref->[$i] and $aref->[$i+1]"; last unless ($disorder eq "Instability"); } return $status; } # Verify that the two array refs reference identical arrays sub checkequal { my ($aref, $bref) = @_; my $status = ''; my $i; if (@$aref != @$bref) { $status = "Sizes differ: " . @$aref . " vs " . @$bref; } else { for ($i = 0; $i < @$aref; ++$i) { next if ($aref->[$i] eq $bref->[$i]); $status = "Element $i differs: $aref->[$i] vs $bref->[$i]"; last; } } return $status; } # Test sort on arrays of various sizes (set up in @TestSizes) sub main { my ($dothesort, $expect_unstable) = @_; my ($ts, $unsorted, @sorted, $status); my $unstable_num = 0; foreach $ts (@TestSizes) { $unsorted = genarray($ts); # Sort only on item portion of each element. # There will typically be many repeated items, # and their order had better be preserved. @sorted = $dothesort->(sub { substr($a, 0, $RootWidth) cmp substr($b, 0, $RootWidth) }, $unsorted); $status = checkorder(\@sorted); # Put the items back into the original order. # The contents of the arrays had better be identical. if ($expect_unstable && $status =~ /^Instability/) { $status = ''; ++$unstable_num; } is($status, '', "order ok for size $ts"); @sorted = $dothesort->(sub { substr($a, $RootWidth) cmp substr($b, $RootWidth) }, \@sorted); $status = checkequal(\@sorted, $unsorted); is($status, '', "contents ok for size $ts"); } if ($expect_unstable) { ok($unstable_num > 0, 'Instability ok'); } } # Test with no pragma yet loaded. Stability is expected from default sort. main(sub { sort {&{$_[0]}} @{$_[1]} }, 0); # Verify that we have eliminated the segfault that could be triggered # by invoking a sort as part of a comparison routine. # No need for an explicit test. If we don't segfault, we're good. { sub dumbsort { my ($a, $b) = @_; use sort qw( defaults stable ); my @ignore = sort (5,4,3,2,1); return $a <=> $b; } use sort qw( defaults stable ); my @nested = sort { dumbsort($a,$b) } (3,2,2,1); } { use sort qw(stable); my $sort_current; BEGIN { my $a = "" ; local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {$a = $_[0]}; $sort_current = sort::current(); like($a, qr/\Asort::current is deprecated\b/, "sort::current warns"); } is($sort_current, 'stable', 'sort::current for stable'); main(sub { sort {&{$_[0]}} @{$_[1]} }, 0); } # Tests added to check "defaults" subpragma, and "no sort" { use sort qw(defaults stable); my $sort_current; BEGIN { my $a = "" ; local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {$a = $_[0]}; $sort_current = sort::current(); like($a, qr/\Asort::current is deprecated\b/, "sort::current warns"); } is($sort_current, 'stable', 'sort::current after defaults stable'); main(sub { sort {&{$_[0]}} @{$_[1]} }, 0); } # Tests added to check how sort::current is deprecated { no sort qw(stable); my $sort_current; BEGIN { my $a = "" ; local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {$a = $_[0]}; $sort_current = sort::current(); like($a, qr/\Asort::current is deprecated\b/, "sort::current warns"); } is($sort_current, 'stable', 'sort::current *always* stable'); } { use sort qw(defaults); my $sort_current; BEGIN { no warnings qw(deprecated); my $a = "" ; local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {$a = $_[0]}; $sort_current = sort::current(); is($a, "", "sort::current warning can be disabled"); } is($sort_current, 'stable', 'sort::current *always* stable'); } { use sort qw(stable); my $sort_current; BEGIN { no warnings qw(deprecated); my $a = "" ; local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {$a = $_[0]}; $sort_current = sort::current(); is($a, "", "sort::current warning can be disabled"); } is($sort_current, 'stable', 'sort::current for stable'); } done_testing();