Wedson Almeida Filho <[email protected]> writes:
> There is no functional change, but this change eliminates a subtraction that
> the compiler doesn't optimize out (as of gcc 4.7.3).
>
> Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <[email protected]>
> ---
>  lib/bsearch.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/bsearch.c b/lib/bsearch.c
> index e33c179..3264146 100644
> --- a/lib/bsearch.c
> +++ b/lib/bsearch.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t 
> num, size_t size,
>       int result;
>  
>       while (start < end) {
> -             size_t mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
> +             size_t mid = (start + end) / 2;
>  
>               result = cmp(key, base + mid * size);
>               if (result < 0)
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5

Please add a comment about overflow instead?

Thanks,
Rusty.
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