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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Cc: "André Goddard Rosa" <andre.goddard@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Alan Jenkins" <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>,
	"Tim Abbott" <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] bsearch: prevent overflow when computing middle comparison element
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:02:20 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010051002.21609.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100924055012.GC18432@haskell.muteddisk.com>

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:20:12 pm matt mooney wrote:
> > + * bsearch - binary search an array of elements
> > + * @key: pointer to item being searched for
> > + * @base: pointer to data to sort
> 
> The comment for "@base" seems wrong. It appears that it should say "pointer to
> sorted data" or "pointer to search data" instead.

Thanks, fixed:

+ * @base: pointer to first element to search

Cheers,
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-04 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1257864802.git.andre.goddard@gmail.com>
2009-11-10 15:00 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] bsearch: avoid unneeded decrement arithmetic André Goddard Rosa
2009-11-10 15:00 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] bsearch: prevent overflow when computing middle comparison element André Goddard Rosa
2009-11-11 15:09   ` Thiago Farina
2009-11-11 15:28     ` Thiago Farina
2009-11-12 13:06   ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-12 13:23     ` André Goddard Rosa
2009-11-13 15:03     ` Thiago Farina
2009-11-13 23:42       ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTinhg-ZgQRQ5KUXR-FeTa9zo+cUF+3vZykzeaHwE@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-23  1:26           ` Rusty Russell
2010-09-24  5:50             ` matt mooney
2010-10-04 23:32               ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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