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author | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2016-09-09 22:28:22 -0400 |
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committer | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2016-09-09 22:28:22 -0400 |
commit | 52bafc94397795e196aa516df044994692f4705f (patch) | |
tree | cf2902e30be32df79be41edd470f4c11fe17ef97 /libhal.py | |
parent | d56ce9ab6cfd874b0bbcba204b33af4e7e762517 (diff) |
Portable fix for ks_find() fencepost error.
Binary search of an array is a notorious example of a simple algorithm
which is hard to get exactly right. The variant we're using is nice
because it automatically computes the correct insertion point when a
key doesn't exist, but runs into one of the portability corner cases
of signed integer arithemtic in C. Rather than leave a landmine
waiting to explode if somebody builds this code on a platform where
(-1 >> 1) != -1, we test for the corner case explictly and accept the
miniscule performance hit (which will be lost in other noise anyway).
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