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authorRob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>2016-09-09 22:28:22 -0400
committerRob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>2016-09-09 22:28:22 -0400
commit52bafc94397795e196aa516df044994692f4705f (patch)
treecf2902e30be32df79be41edd470f4c11fe17ef97 /utils/Makefile
parentd56ce9ab6cfd874b0bbcba204b33af4e7e762517 (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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