git/prio-queue.h

#ifndef PRIO_QUEUE_H
#define PRIO_QUEUE_H

/*
 * A priority queue implementation, primarily for keeping track of
 * commits in the 'date-order' so that we process them from new to old
 * as they are discovered, but can be used to hold any pointer to
 * struct.  The caller is responsible for supplying a function to
 * compare two "things".
 *
 * Alternatively, this data structure can also be used as a LIFO stack
 * by specifying NULL as the comparison function.
 */

/*
 * Compare two "things", one and two; the third parameter is cb_data
 * in the prio_queue structure.  The result is returned as a sign of
 * the return value, being the same as the sign of the result of
 * subtracting "two" from "one" (i.e. negative if "one" sorts earlier
 * than "two").
 */
prio_queue_compare_fn;

struct prio_queue_entry { … };

struct prio_queue { … };

/*
 * Add the "thing" to the queue.
 */
void prio_queue_put(struct prio_queue *, void *thing);

/*
 * Extract the "thing" that compares the smallest out of the queue,
 * or NULL.  If compare function is NULL, the queue acts as a LIFO
 * stack.
 */
void *prio_queue_get(struct prio_queue *);

/*
 * Gain access to the "thing" that would be returned by
 * prio_queue_get, but do not remove it from the queue.
 */
void *prio_queue_peek(struct prio_queue *);

void clear_prio_queue(struct prio_queue *);

/* Reverse the LIFO elements */
void prio_queue_reverse(struct prio_queue *);

#endif /* PRIO_QUEUE_H */