From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: nasty bug in bsearch()
21 Jul 1997 18:22:12 -0700 :
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Original-To:	khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
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In-Reply-To:	<9703250627.AA12477@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> from "Mumit Khan" at Mar 25, 97 00:27:39 am
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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 AT cygnus DOT com
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