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34 #if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
35 static char sccsid
[] = "@(#)bsearch.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93";
36 #endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
42 * Perform a binary search.
44 * The code below is a bit sneaky. After a comparison fails, we
45 * divide the work in half by moving either left or right. If lim
46 * is odd, moving left simply involves halving lim: e.g., when lim
47 * is 5 we look at item 2, so we change lim to 2 so that we will
48 * look at items 0 & 1. If lim is even, the same applies. If lim
49 * is odd, moving right again involes halving lim, this time moving
50 * the base up one item past p: e.g., when lim is 5 we change base
51 * to item 3 and make lim 2 so that we will look at items 3 and 4.
52 * If lim is even, however, we have to shrink it by one before
53 * halving: e.g., when lim is 4, we still looked at item 2, so we
54 * have to make lim 3, then halve, obtaining 1, so that we will only
63 int (*compar
)(void const *, void const *)
66 char const *base
= base0
;
71 for (lim
= nmemb
; lim
!= 0; lim
>>= 1) {
72 p
= base
+ (lim
>> 1) * size
;
73 cmp
= (*compar
)(key
, p
);
77 if (cmp
> 0) { /* key > p: move right */
78 base
= (char *)p
+ size
;
80 } /* else move left */