1 /* $NetBSD: bsearch.c,v 1.14 2010/11/27 18:33:54 christos Exp $ */
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32 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
33 #if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
35 static char sccsid
[] = "@(#)bsearch.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93";
37 __RCSID("$NetBSD: bsearch.c,v 1.14 2010/11/27 18:33:54 christos Exp $");
39 #endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
46 * Perform a binary search.
48 * The code below is a bit sneaky. After a comparison fails, we
49 * divide the work in half by moving either left or right. If lim
50 * is odd, moving left simply involves halving lim: e.g., when lim
51 * is 5 we look at item 2, so we change lim to 2 so that we will
52 * look at items 0 & 1. If lim is even, the same applies. If lim
53 * is odd, moving right again involes halving lim, this time moving
54 * the base up one item past p: e.g., when lim is 5 we change base
55 * to item 3 and make lim 2 so that we will look at items 3 and 4.
56 * If lim is even, however, we have to shrink it by one before
57 * halving: e.g., when lim is 4, we still looked at item 2, so we
58 * have to make lim 3, then halve, obtaining 1, so that we will only
62 bsearch(const void *key
, const void *base0
, size_t nmemb
, size_t size
,
63 int (*compar
)(const void *, const void *))
65 const char *base
= base0
;
70 _DIAGASSERT(key
!= NULL
);
71 _DIAGASSERT(base0
!= NULL
);
72 _DIAGASSERT(compar
!= NULL
);
74 for (lim
= nmemb
; lim
!= 0; lim
>>= 1) {
75 p
= base
+ (lim
>> 1) * size
;
76 cmp
= (*compar
)(key
, p
);
79 if (cmp
> 0) { /* key > p: move right */
80 base
= (const char *)p
+ size
;
82 } /* else move left */