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12 *                                                                      *
13 *              Information and Software Systems Research               *
14 *                            AT&T Research                             *
15 *                           Florham Park NJ                            *
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17 *                 Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com>                  *
18 *                  David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>                   *
19 *                   Phong Vo <kpv@research.att.com>                    *
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22 #pragma prototyped
23 /*
24  * Glenn Fowler
25  * AT&T Research
26  */
27 
28 #include <ast.h>
29 
30 /*
31  * return a pointer to the element matching
32  * name in the (*comparf*)() sorted tab of num elements of
33  * size siz where the first member of each
34  * element is a char*
35  *
36  * 0 returned if name not found
37  */
38 
39 void*
40 strsearch(const void* tab, size_t num, size_t siz, Strcmp_f comparf, const char* name, void* context)
41 {
42 	register char*		lo = (char*)tab;
43 	register char*		hi = lo + (num - 1) * siz;
44 	register char*		mid;
45 	register int		v;
46 
47 	while (lo <= hi)
48 	{
49 		mid = lo + (((hi - lo) / siz) / 2) * siz;
50 		if (!(v = context ? (*(Strcmp_context_f)comparf)(name, *((char**)mid), context) : (*comparf)(name, *((char**)mid))))
51 			return (void*)mid;
52 		else if (v > 0)
53 			lo = mid + siz;
54 		else hi = mid - siz;
55 	}
56 	return 0;
57 }
58