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authorkeramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org>2013-02-23 12:31:52 +0000
committerkeramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org>2013-02-23 12:31:52 +0000
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Now that qsort(3) has a sample comparison function, point to that
example from bsearch(3) too, so that we don't have to duplicate the example code in both places. PR: docs/176197 Reviewed by: stefanf Approved by: remko (mentor), gjb (mentor) MFC after: 1 week
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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/bsearch.38
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/bsearch.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/bsearch.3
index b3591f8e..25be842 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/bsearch.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/bsearch.3
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)bsearch.3 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 19, 1994
+.Dd February 22, 2013
.Dt BSEARCH 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the
.Fa key
object is found, respectively, to be less than, to match, or be
greater than the array member.
+See the
+.Fa int_compare
+sample function in
+.Xr qsort 3
+for a comparison function that is also compatible with
+.Fn bsearch .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn bsearch
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