xref: /freebsd/lib/libc/stdlib/bsearch.c (revision 4f29da19bd44f0e99f021510460a81bf754c21d2)
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33 
34 #if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
35 static char sccsid[] = "@(#)bsearch.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93";
36 #endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
37 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
38 __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
39 
40 #include <stddef.h>
41 #include <stdlib.h>
42 
43 /*
44  * Perform a binary search.
45  *
46  * The code below is a bit sneaky.  After a comparison fails, we
47  * divide the work in half by moving either left or right. If lim
48  * is odd, moving left simply involves halving lim: e.g., when lim
49  * is 5 we look at item 2, so we change lim to 2 so that we will
50  * look at items 0 & 1.  If lim is even, the same applies.  If lim
51  * is odd, moving right again involes halving lim, this time moving
52  * the base up one item past p: e.g., when lim is 5 we change base
53  * to item 3 and make lim 2 so that we will look at items 3 and 4.
54  * If lim is even, however, we have to shrink it by one before
55  * halving: e.g., when lim is 4, we still looked at item 2, so we
56  * have to make lim 3, then halve, obtaining 1, so that we will only
57  * look at item 3.
58  */
59 void *
60 bsearch(key, base0, nmemb, size, compar)
61 	const void *key;
62 	const void *base0;
63 	size_t nmemb;
64 	size_t size;
65 	int (*compar)(const void *, const void *);
66 {
67 	const char *base = base0;
68 	size_t lim;
69 	int cmp;
70 	const void *p;
71 
72 	for (lim = nmemb; lim != 0; lim >>= 1) {
73 		p = base + (lim >> 1) * size;
74 		cmp = (*compar)(key, p);
75 		if (cmp == 0)
76 			return ((void *)p);
77 		if (cmp > 0) {	/* key > p: move right */
78 			base = (char *)p + size;
79 			lim--;
80 		}		/* else move left */
81 	}
82 	return (NULL);
83 }
84