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**   walIteratorNext() - Step an iterator,
**   walIteratorFree() - Free an iterator.
**
** This functionality is used by the checkpoint code (see walCheckpoint()).
*/
struct WalIterator {
  int iPrior;                     /* Last result returned from the iterator */
  int nSegment;                   /* Number of entries in aSegment[] */
  struct WalSegment {
    int iNext;                    /* Next slot in aIndex[] not yet returned */
    ht_slot *aIndex;              /* i0, i1, i2... such that aPgno[iN] ascend */
    u32 *aPgno;                   /* Array of page numbers. */
    int nEntry;                   /* Nr. of entries in aPgno[] and aIndex[] */
    int iZero;                    /* Frame number associated with aPgno[0] */
  } aSegment[1];                  /* One for every 32KB page in the wal-index */
};

/*
** Define the parameters of the hash tables in the wal-index file. There
** is a hash-table following every HASHTABLE_NPAGE page numbers in the
** wal-index.
**

  *piPage = p->iPrior = iRet;
  return (iRet==0xFFFFFFFF);
}

/*
** This function merges two sorted lists into a single sorted list.
**
** aLeft[] and aRight[] are arrays of indices.  The sort key is
** aContent[aLeft[]] and aContent[aRight[]].  Upon entry, the following
** is guaranteed for all J<K:
**
**        aContent[aLeft[J]] < aContent[aLeft[K]]
**        aContent[aRight[J]] < aContent[aRight[K]]
**
** This routine overwrites aRight[] with a new (probably longer) sequence
** of indices such that the aRight[] contains every index that appears in
** either aLeft[] or the old aRight[] and such that the second condition
** above is still met.
**
** The aContent[aLeft[X]] values will be unique for all X.  And the
** aContent[aRight[X]] values will be unique too.  But there might be
** one or more combinations of X and Y such that
**
**      aLeft[X]!=aRight[Y]  &&  aContent[aLeft[X]] == aContent[aRight[Y]]
**
** When that happens, omit the aLeft[X] and use the aRight[Y] index.
*/
static void walMerge(
  const u32 *aContent,            /* Pages in wal - keys for the sort */
  ht_slot *aLeft,                 /* IN: Left hand input list */
  int nLeft,                      /* IN: Elements in array *paLeft */
  ht_slot **paRight,              /* IN/OUT: Right hand input list */
  int *pnRight,                   /* IN/OUT: Elements in *paRight */
  ht_slot *aTmp                   /* Temporary buffer */
){
  int iLeft = 0;                  /* Current index in aLeft */

  *paRight = aLeft;
  *pnRight = iOut;
  memcpy(aLeft, aTmp, sizeof(aTmp[0])*iOut);
}

/*
** Sort the elements in list aList using aContent[] as the sort key.
** Remove elements with duplicate keys, preferring to keep the
** larger aList[] values.
**
** The aList[] entries are indices into aContent[].  The values in
** aList[] are to be sorted so that for all J<K:
**
**      aContent[aList[J]] < aContent[aList[K]]
**
** For any X and Y such that
**
**      aContent[aList[X]] == aContent[aList[Y]]
**
** Keep the larger of the two values aList[X] and aList[Y] and discard
** the smaller.
*/
static void walMergesort(
  const u32 *aContent,            /* Pages in wal */
  ht_slot *aBuffer,               /* Buffer of at least *pnList items to use */
  ht_slot *aList,                 /* IN/OUT: List to sort */
  int *pnList                     /* IN/OUT: Number of elements in aList[] */
){
  struct Sublist {
    int nList;                    /* Number of elements in aList */
    ht_slot *aList;               /* Pointer to sub-list content */

static void walIteratorFree(WalIterator *p){
  sqlite3ScratchFree(p);
}

/*
** Construct a WalInterator object that can be used to loop over all 
** pages in the WAL in ascending order. The caller must hold the checkpoint
** lock.
**
** On success, make *pp point to the newly allocated WalInterator object
** return SQLITE_OK. Otherwise, return an error code. If this routine
** returns an error, the value of *pp is undefined.
**
** The calling routine should invoke walIteratorFree() to destroy the
** WalIterator object when it has finished with it.