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   1Motivation
   2==========
   3
   4Treaps provide a memory-efficient binary search tree structure.
   5Insertion/deletion/search are about as about as fast in the average
   6case as red-black trees and the chances of worst-case behavior are
   7vanishingly small, thanks to (pseudo-)randomness.  The bad worst-case
   8behavior is a small price to pay, given that treaps are much simpler
   9to implement.
  10
  11API
  12===
  13
  14The trp API generates a data structure and functions to handle a
  15large growing set of objects stored in a pool.
  16
  17The caller:
  18
  19. Specifies parameters for the generated functions with the
  20  trp_gen(static, foo_, ...) macro.
  21
  22. Allocates a `struct trp_root` variable and sets it to {~0}.
  23
  24. Adds new nodes to the set using `foo_insert`.  Any pointers
  25  to existing nodes cannot be relied upon any more, so the caller
  26  might retrieve them anew with `foo_pointer`.
  27
  28. Can find a specific item in the set using `foo_search`.
  29
  30. Can iterate over items in the set using `foo_first` and `foo_next`.
  31
  32. Can remove an item from the set using `foo_remove`.
  33
  34Example:
  35
  36----
  37struct ex_node {
  38        const char *s;
  39        struct trp_node ex_link;
  40};
  41static struct trp_root ex_base = {~0};
  42obj_pool_gen(ex, struct ex_node, 4096);
  43trp_gen(static, ex_, struct ex_node, ex_link, ex, strcmp)
  44struct ex_node *item;
  45
  46item = ex_pointer(ex_alloc(1));
  47item->s = "hello";
  48ex_insert(&ex_base, item);
  49item = ex_pointer(ex_alloc(1));
  50item->s = "goodbye";
  51ex_insert(&ex_base, item);
  52for (item = ex_first(&ex_base); item; item = ex_next(&ex_base, item))
  53        printf("%s\n", item->s);
  54----
  55
  56Functions
  57---------
  58
  59trp_gen(attr, foo_, node_type, link_field, pool, cmp)::
  60
  61        Generate a type-specific treap implementation.
  62+
  63. The storage class for generated functions will be 'attr' (e.g., `static`).
  64. Generated function names are prefixed with 'foo_' (e.g., `treap_`).
  65. Treap nodes will be of type 'node_type' (e.g., `struct treap_node`).
  66  This type must be a struct with at least one `struct trp_node` field
  67  to point to its children.
  68. The field used to access child nodes will be 'link_field'.
  69. All treap nodes must lie in the 'pool' object pool.
  70. Treap nodes must be totally ordered by the 'cmp' relation, with the
  71  following prototype:
  72+
  73int (*cmp)(node_type \*a, node_type \*b)
  74+
  75and returning a value less than, equal to, or greater than zero
  76according to the result of comparison.
  77
  78node_type {asterisk}foo_insert(struct trp_root *treap, node_type \*node)::
  79
  80        Insert node into treap.  If inserted multiple times,
  81        a node will appear in the treap multiple times.
  82+
  83The return value is the address of the node within the treap,
  84which might differ from `node` if `pool_alloc` had to call
  85`realloc` to expand the pool.
  86
  87void foo_remove(struct trp_root *treap, node_type \*node)::
  88
  89        Remove node from treap.  Caller must ensure node is
  90        present in treap before using this function.
  91
  92node_type *foo_search(struct trp_root \*treap, node_type \*key)::
  93
  94        Search for a node that matches key.  If no match is found,
  95        result is NULL.
  96
  97node_type *foo_nsearch(struct trp_root \*treap, node_type \*key)::
  98
  99        Like `foo_search`, but if the key is missing return what
 100        would be key's successor, were key in treap (NULL if no
 101        successor).
 102
 103node_type *foo_first(struct trp_root \*treap)::
 104
 105        Find the first item from the treap, in sorted order.
 106
 107node_type *foo_next(struct trp_root \*treap, node_type \*node)::
 108
 109        Find the next item.