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Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 21:59:29 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: One less subtraction in binary search iterations.
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 16:07 -0700, Wedson Almeida Filho wrote:
> There is no functional change, but this change eliminates a subtraction that
> the compiler doesn't optimize out (as of gcc 4.7.3).
Not correct.
> diff --git 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;
size_t start = 0x80000000;
size_t end = 0x80000001;
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