[PATCH 08/10] lib: bsearch - remove redundant special case for arrays of size 0

From: Alan Jenkins
Date: Sat Nov 07 2009 - 16:05:02 EST


> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
>> The if (num == 0) line is superfluous.

On 9/27/09, Tim Abbott <tabbott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You are quite right.

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/bsearch.c | 2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/bsearch.c b/lib/bsearch.c
index 4297c98..2e70664 100644
--- a/lib/bsearch.c
+++ b/lib/bsearch.c
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
int (*cmp)(const void *key, const void *elt))
{
int start = 0, end = num - 1, mid, result;
- if (num == 0)
- return NULL;

while (start <= end) {
mid = (start + end) / 2;
--
1.6.3.3

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