diff --git a/libmaxsi/Makefile b/libmaxsi/Makefile
index 21d0589e..16dce0ee 100644
--- a/libmaxsi/Makefile
+++ b/libmaxsi/Makefile
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ integer.o \
c++.o \
memory.o \
heap.o \
+sort.o \
string.o \
error.o \
format.o \
diff --git a/libmaxsi/include/stdlib.h b/libmaxsi/include/stdlib.h
index e134889f..53235971 100644
--- a/libmaxsi/include/stdlib.h
+++ b/libmaxsi/include/stdlib.h
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ void _Exit(int status);
void free(void*);
char* getenv(const char*);
void* malloc(size_t);
+void qsort(void*, size_t, size_t, int (*)(const void*, const void*));
int rand(void);
void* realloc(void*, size_t);
long strtol(const char* restrict, char** restrict, int);
@@ -98,7 +99,6 @@ int posix_memalign(void**, size_t, size_t);
int posix_openpt(int);
char* ptsname(int);
int putenv(char*);
-void qsort(void*, size_t, size_t, int (*)(const void*, const void*));
long random(void);
char* realpath(const char* restrict, char* restrict);
unsigned short *seed48(unsigned short [3]);
diff --git a/libmaxsi/sort.cpp b/libmaxsi/sort.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5c28af7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libmaxsi/sort.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+
+ COPYRIGHT(C) JONAS 'SORTIE' TERMANSEN 2012.
+
+ This file is part of LibMaxsi.
+
+ LibMaxsi is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+ the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+ Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+
+ LibMaxsi is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
+ WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+ FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
+ details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ along with LibMaxsi. If not, see .
+
+ sort.cpp
+ Utility functions related to sorting and sorted data.
+
+*******************************************************************************/
+
+#include
+#include
+#include
+
+// TODO: This is an ugly hack!
+static void memswap(uint8_t* a, uint8_t* b, size_t size)
+{
+ uint8_t* tmp = (uint8_t*) malloc(size);
+ if ( !tmp ) { abort(); }
+ memcpy(tmp, a, size);
+ memcpy(a, b, size);
+ memcpy(b, tmp, size);
+ free(tmp);
+}
+
+// TODO: This is just a quick and dirty insertion sort. It'd be nice to have a
+// good old quick sort here soon. Combined with the slow memswap above, this
+// results in a very slow sorting algorithm.
+extern "C" void qsort(void* base, size_t nmemb, size_t size,
+ int (* compare)(const void*, const void*))
+{
+ uint8_t* buf = (uint8_t*) base;
+ for ( size_t i = 0; i < nmemb; i++ )
+ {
+ for ( size_t c = i; c; c-- )
+ {
+ size_t currentoff = c * size;
+ uint8_t* current = buf + currentoff;
+ size_t p = c-1;
+ size_t prevoff = p * size;
+ uint8_t* prev = buf + prevoff;
+ int cmp = compare(prev, current);
+ if ( cmp <= 0 ) { break; }
+ memswap(prev, current, size);
+ }
+ }
+}
+