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slices: add documentation on incomparable items in SortFunc

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Benson Margulies 2024-06-13 22:47:18 +00:00 committed by Gopher Robot
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@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ func Sort[S ~[]E, E cmp.Ordered](x S) {
// SortFunc sorts the slice x in ascending order as determined by the cmp
// function. This sort is not guaranteed to be stable.
// cmp(a, b) should return a negative number when a < b, a positive number when
// a > b and zero when a == b.
// a > b and zero when a == b or a and b are incomparable in the sense of
// a strict weak ordering.
//
// SortFunc requires that cmp is a strict weak ordering.
// See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_ordering#Strict_weak_orderings.
// The function should return 0 for incomparable items.
func SortFunc[S ~[]E, E any](x S, cmp func(a, b E) int) {
n := len(x)
pdqsortCmpFunc(x, 0, n, bits.Len(uint(n)), cmp)