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33 @deftypefn Supplemental void* bsearch (const void *@var{key}, const void *@var{base}, size_t @var{nmemb}, size_t @var{size}, int (*@var{compar})(const void *, const void *))
35 Performs a search over an array of @var{nmemb} elements pointed to by
36 @var{base} for a member that matches the object pointed to by @var{key}.
37 The size of each member is specified by @var{size}. The array contents
38 should be sorted in ascending order according to the @var{compar}
39 comparison function. This routine should take two arguments pointing to
40 the @var{key} and to an array member, in that order, and should return an
41 integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the @var{key} object
42 is respectively less than, matching, or greater than the array member.
44 @end deftypefn
48 #include "config.h"
49 #include "ansidecl.h"
50 #include <sys/types.h> /* size_t */
51 #include <stdio.h>
54 * Perform a binary search.
56 * The code below is a bit sneaky. After a comparison fails, we
57 * divide the work in half by moving either left or right. If lim
58 * is odd, moving left simply involves halving lim: e.g., when lim
59 * is 5 we look at item 2, so we change lim to 2 so that we will
60 * look at items 0 & 1. If lim is even, the same applies. If lim
61 * is odd, moving right again involes halving lim, this time moving
62 * the base up one item past p: e.g., when lim is 5 we change base
63 * to item 3 and make lim 2 so that we will look at items 3 and 4.
64 * If lim is even, however, we have to shrink it by one before
65 * halving: e.g., when lim is 4, we still looked at item 2, so we
66 * have to make lim 3, then halve, obtaining 1, so that we will only
67 * look at item 3.
69 void *
70 bsearch(key, base0, nmemb, size, compar)
71 register void *key;
72 void *base0;
73 size_t nmemb;
74 register size_t size;
75 register int (*compar)();
77 register char *base = base0;
78 register int lim, cmp;
79 register void *p;
81 for (lim = nmemb; lim != 0; lim >>= 1) {
82 p = base + (lim >> 1) * size;
83 cmp = (*compar)(key, p);
84 if (cmp == 0)
85 return (p);
86 if (cmp > 0) { /* key > p: move right */
87 base = (char *)p + size;
88 lim--;
89 } /* else move left */
91 return (NULL);