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29 * @(#)bsearch.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
30 * $FreeBSD: src/sys/libkern/bsearch.c,v 1.8 2005/01/07 00:24:32 imp Exp $
31 * $DragonFly: src/sys/libkern/bsearch.c,v 1.1 2007/11/18 17:53:02 pavalos Exp $
34 #include <sys/param.h>
35 #include <sys/libkern.h>
38 * Perform a binary search.
40 * The code below is a bit sneaky. After a comparison fails, we
41 * divide the work in half by moving either left or right. If lim
42 * is odd, moving left simply involves halving lim: e.g., when lim
43 * is 5 we look at item 2, so we change lim to 2 so that we will
44 * look at items 0 & 1. If lim is even, the same applies. If lim
45 * is odd, moving right again involes halving lim, this time moving
46 * the base up one item past p: e.g., when lim is 5 we change base
47 * to item 3 and make lim 2 so that we will look at items 3 and 4.
48 * If lim is even, however, we have to shrink it by one before
49 * halving: e.g., when lim is 4, we still looked at item 2, so we
50 * have to make lim 3, then halve, obtaining 1, so that we will only
54 bsearch(const void *key
, const void *base0
, size_t nmemb
, size_t size
,
55 int (*compar
)(const void *, const void *))
57 const char *base
= base0
;
62 for (lim
= nmemb
; lim
!= 0; lim
>>= 1) {
63 p
= base
+ (lim
>> 1) * size
;
64 cmp
= (*compar
)(key
, p
);
66 return ((void *)(uintptr_t)p
);
67 if (cmp
> 0) { /* key > p: move right */
68 base
= (const char *)p
+ size
;
70 } /* else move left */