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* Copyright (c) 1990 Regents of the University of California.
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@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 *))
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Performs a search over an array of @var{nmemb} elements pointed to by
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@var{base} for a member that matches the object pointed to by @var{key}.
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The size of each member is specified by @var{size}. The array contents
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should be sorted in ascending order according to the @var{compar}
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comparison function. This routine should take two arguments pointing to
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the @var{key} and to an array member, in that order, and should return an
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integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the @var{key} object
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is respectively less than, matching, or greater than the array member.
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#include <sys/types.h> /* size_t */
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* Perform a binary search.
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* The code below is a bit sneaky. After a comparison fails, we
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* divide the work in half by moving either left or right. If lim
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* is odd, moving left simply involves halving lim: e.g., when lim
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* is 5 we look at item 2, so we change lim to 2 so that we will
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* look at items 0 & 1. If lim is even, the same applies. If lim
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* is odd, moving right again involes halving lim, this time moving
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* the base up one item past p: e.g., when lim is 5 we change base
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* to item 3 and make lim 2 so that we will look at items 3 and 4.
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* If lim is even, however, we have to shrink it by one before
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* halving: e.g., when lim is 4, we still looked at item 2, so we
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* have to make lim 3, then halve, obtaining 1, so that we will only
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bsearch(key, base0, nmemb, size, compar)
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register int (*compar)();
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register char *base = base0;
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register int lim, cmp;
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for (lim = nmemb; lim != 0; lim >>= 1) {
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p = base + (lim >> 1) * size;
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cmp = (*compar)(key, p);
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if (cmp > 0) { /* key > p: move right */
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base = (char *)p + size;
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} /* else move left */