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- /*
- * Copyright (c) 1990 Regents of the University of California.
- * All rights reserved.
- *
- * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
- * provided that: (1) source distributions retain this entire copyright
- * notice and comment, and (2) distributions including binaries display
- * the following acknowledgement: ``This product includes software
- * developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors''
- * in the documentation or other materials provided with the distribution
- * and in all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
- * software. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its
- * contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
- * from this software without specific prior written permission.
- * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
- * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- */
-
- #if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
- static char sccsid[] = "@@(#)bsearch.c 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/17/90";
- #endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
-
- #include <stddef.h> /* size_t */
- #include <stdlib.h>
-
- /*
- * Perform a binary search.
- *
- * The code below is a bit sneaky. After a comparison fails, we
- * divide the work in half by moving either left or right. If lim
- * is odd, moving left simply involves halving lim: e.g., when lim
- * is 5 we look at item 2, so we change lim to 2 so that we will
- * look at items 0 & 1. If lim is even, the same applies. If lim
- * is odd, moving right again involes halving lim, this time moving
- * the base up one item past p: e.g., when lim is 5 we change base
- * to item 3 and make lim 2 so that we will look at items 3 and 4.
- * If lim is even, however, we have to shrink it by one before
- * halving: e.g., when lim is 4, we still looked at item 2, so we
- * have to make lim 3, then halve, obtaining 1, so that we will only
- * look at item 3.
- */
- void *
- bsearch(const void *key, const void *base0,
- size_t nmemb, size_t size, int (*compar)())
- {
- register char *base = base0;
- register int lim, cmp;
- register void *p;
-
- for (lim = nmemb; lim != 0; lim >>= 1) {
- p = base + (lim >> 1) * size;
- cmp = (*compar)(key, p);
- if (cmp == 0)
- return (p);
- if (cmp > 0) { /* key > p: move right */
- base = (char *)p + size;
- lim--;
- } /* else move left */
- }
- return (NULL);
- }