2 * bsearch_arg.c: bsearch variant with a user-supplied pointer
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33 * src/port/bsearch_arg.c
39 * Perform a binary search.
41 * The code below is a bit sneaky. After a comparison fails, we
42 * divide the work in half by moving either left or right. If lim
43 * is odd, moving left simply involves halving lim: e.g., when lim
44 * is 5 we look at item 2, so we change lim to 2 so that we will
45 * look at items 0 & 1. If lim is even, the same applies. If lim
46 * is odd, moving right again involves halving lim, this time moving
47 * the base up one item past p: e.g., when lim is 5 we change base
48 * to item 3 and make lim 2 so that we will look at items 3 and 4.
49 * If lim is even, however, we have to shrink it by one before
50 * halving: e.g., when lim is 4, we still looked at item 2, so we
51 * have to make lim 3, then halve, obtaining 1, so that we will only
55 bsearch_arg(const void *key
, const void *base0
,
56 size_t nmemb
, size_t size
,
57 int (*compar
) (const void *, const void *, void *),
60 const char *base
= (const char *) base0
;
65 for (lim
= nmemb
; lim
!= 0; lim
>>= 1)
67 p
= base
+ (lim
>> 1) * size
;
68 cmp
= (*compar
) (key
, p
, arg
);
72 { /* key > p: move right */
73 base
= (const char *) p
+ size
;
75 } /* else move left */