nasty bug in bsearch()

Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com
Mon Jul 21 17:47:00 GMT 1997


Mumit Khan wrote a very long time ago:
> 
> I believe there is a nasty bug in bsearch that gets tickled whenever the
> item to be searched for is "greater" than the last item in the list
> supplied. Take the following trivial code:
[...]

This will be fixed in the next release.  I just rewrote
newlib/libc/stdlib/bsearch.c using a better algorithm.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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