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22*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*      Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T */
23*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*        All Rights Reserved   */
24*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
25*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #pragma ident	"%Z%%M%	%I%	%E% SMI"  /* from S5R2 1.5 */
26*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
27*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*LINTLIBRARY*/
28*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
29*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Binary search algorithm, generalized from Knuth (6.2.1) Algorithm B.
30*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
31*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
32*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
33*0Sstevel@tonic-gate typedef char *POINTER;
34*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
35*0Sstevel@tonic-gate POINTER
bsearch(key,base,nel,width,compar)36*0Sstevel@tonic-gate bsearch(key, base, nel, width, compar)
37*0Sstevel@tonic-gate POINTER	key;			/* Key to be located */
38*0Sstevel@tonic-gate POINTER	base;			/* Beginning of table */
39*0Sstevel@tonic-gate unsigned nel;			/* Number of elements in the table */
40*0Sstevel@tonic-gate unsigned width;			/* Width of an element (bytes) */
41*0Sstevel@tonic-gate int	(*compar)();		/* Comparison function */
42*0Sstevel@tonic-gate {
43*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 	int two_width = width + width;
44*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 	POINTER last = base + width * (nel - 1); /* Last element in table */
45*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
46*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 	while (last >= base) {
47*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
48*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 		register POINTER p = base + width * ((last - base)/two_width);
49*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 		register int res = (*compar)(key, p);
50*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
51*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (res == 0)
52*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 			return (p);	/* Key found */
53*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 		if (res < 0)
54*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 			last = p - width;
55*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 		else
56*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 			base = p + width;
57*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 	}
58*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 	return ((POINTER) 0);		/* Key not found */
59*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }
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