rust/compiler/rustc_target/src
Matthias Krüger 158340f561
Rollup merge of #141311 - folkertdev:tidy-natural-sort, r=jieyouxu
make `tidy-alphabetical` use a natural sort

The idea here is that these lines should be correctly sorted, even though a naive string comparison would say they are not:

```
foo2
foo10
```

This is the ["natural sort order"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_sort_order).

There is more discussion in [#t-compiler/help > tidy natural sort](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/182449-t-compiler.2Fhelp/topic/tidy.20natural.20sort/with/519111079)

Unfortunately, no standard sorting tools are smart enough to to this automatically (casting some doubt on whether we should make this change). Here are some sort outputs:

```
> cat foo.txt | sort
foo
foo1
foo10
foo2
mp
mp1e2
np",
np1e2",
> cat foo.txt | sort -n
foo
foo1
foo10
foo2
mp
mp1e2
np",
np1e2",
> cat foo.txt | sort -V
foo
foo1
foo2
foo10
mp
mp1e2
np1e2",
np",
```

Disappointingly, "numeric" sort does not actually have the behavior we want. It only sorts by numeric value if the line starts with a number. The "version" sort looks promising, but does something very unintuitive if you look at the final 4 values. None of the other options seem to have the desired behavior in all cases:

```
  -b, --ignore-leading-blanks  ignore leading blanks
  -d, --dictionary-order      consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
  -f, --ignore-case           fold lower case to upper case characters
  -g, --general-numeric-sort  compare according to general numerical value
  -i, --ignore-nonprinting    consider only printable characters
  -M, --month-sort            compare (unknown) < 'JAN' < ... < 'DEC'
  -h, --human-numeric-sort    compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)
  -n, --numeric-sort          compare according to string numerical value
  -R, --random-sort           shuffle, but group identical keys.  See shuf(1)
      --random-source=FILE    get random bytes from FILE
  -r, --reverse               reverse the result of comparisons
      --sort=WORD             sort according to WORD:
                                general-numeric -g, human-numeric -h, month -M,
                                numeric -n, random -R, version -V
  -V, --version-sort          natural sort of (version) numbers within text
```

r? ```@Noratrieb``` (it sounded like you know this code?)
2025-06-26 15:47:17 +02:00
..
asm Add f16 inline asm support for LoongArch 2025-06-14 09:39:30 +08:00
callconv Fix RISC-V C function ABI when passing/returning structs containing floats 2025-06-16 10:14:07 +01:00
spec Rollup merge of #142992 - workingjubilee:dont-validate-naughty-abis, r=jieyouxu 2025-06-25 22:14:56 +02:00
json.rs compiler: actually remove Conv now that it is irrelevant 2025-06-03 10:08:11 -07:00
lib.rs Remove all unused feature gates from the compiler 2025-06-08 14:50:42 +00:00
target_features.rs make tidy-alphabetical use a natural sort 2025-06-25 22:52:38 +02:00
tests.rs Use serde_json for target spec json 2022-06-03 16:46:19 +00:00