tally: new module for tallying numbers.

[ccan] / ccan / tally / tally.h

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+#ifndef CCAN_TALLY_H
+#define CCAN_TALLY_H
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+struct tally;
+
+/**
+ * tally_new - allocate the tally structure.
+ * @buckets: the number of frequency buckets.
+ *
+ * This allocates a tally structure using malloc().  The greater the value
+ * of @buckets, the more accurate tally_approx_median() and tally_approx_mode()
+ * and tally_graph() will be, but more memory is consumed.
+ */
+struct tally *tally_new(size_t buckets);
+
+/**
+ * tally_add - add a value.
+ * @tally: the tally structure.
+ * @val: the value to add.
+ */
+void tally_add(struct tally *tally, ssize_t val);
+
+/**
+ * tally_num - how many times as tally_add been called?
+ * @tally: the tally structure.
+ */
+size_t tally_num(const struct tally *tally);
+
+/**
+ * tally_min - the minimum value passed to tally_add.
+ * @tally: the tally structure.
+ *
+ * Undefined if tally_num() == 0.
+ */
+ssize_t tally_min(const struct tally *tally);
+
+/**
+ * tally_max - the maximum value passed to tally_add.
+ * @tally: the tally structure.
+ *
+ * Undefined if tally_num() == 0.
+ */
+ssize_t tally_max(const struct tally *tally);
+
+/**
+ * tally_mean - the mean value passed to tally_add.
+ * @tally: the tally structure.
+ *
+ * Undefined if tally_num() == 0, but will not crash.
+ */
+ssize_t tally_mean(const struct tally *tally);
+
+/**
+ * tally_approx_median - the approximate median value passed to tally_add.
+ * @tally: the tally structure.
+ * @err: the error in the returned value (ie. real median is +/- @err).
+ *
+ * Undefined if tally_num() == 0, but will not crash.  Because we
+ * don't reallocate, we don't store all values, so this median cannot be
+ * exact.
+ */
+ssize_t tally_approx_median(const struct tally *tally, size_t *err);
+
+/**
+ * tally_approx_mode - the approximate mode value passed to tally_add.
+ * @tally: the tally structure.
+ * @err: the error in the returned value (ie. real mode is +/- @err).
+ *
+ * Undefined if tally_num() == 0, but will not crash.  Because we
+ * don't reallocate, we don't store all values, so this mode cannot be
+ * exact.  It could well be a value which was never passed to tally_add!
+ */
+ssize_t tally_approx_mode(const struct tally *tally, size_t *err);
+
+#define TALLY_MIN_HISTO_WIDTH 8
+#define TALLY_MIN_HISTO_HEIGHT 3
+
+/**
+ * tally_graph - return an ASCII image of the tally_add distribution
+ * @tally: the tally structure.
+ * @width: the maximum string width to use (>= TALLY_MIN_HISTO_WIDTH)
+ * @height: the maximum string height to use (>= TALLY_MIN_HISTO_HEIGHT)
+ *
+ * Returns a malloc()ed string which draws a multi-line graph of the
+ * distribution of values.  On out of memory returns NULL.
+ */
+char *tally_histogram(const struct tally *tally,
+                     unsigned width, unsigned height);
+#endif /* CCAN_TALLY_H */