/* C++ implementation of a binary search. Copyright (C) 2019-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GDB. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef GDBSUPPORT_GDB_BINARY_SEARCH_H #define GDBSUPPORT_GDB_BINARY_SEARCH_H #include namespace gdb { /* Implements a binary search using C++ iterators. This differs from std::binary_search in that it returns an iterator for the found element and in that the type of EL can be different from the type of the elements in the container. COMP is a C-style comparison function with signature: int comp(const value_type& a, const T& b); It should return -1, 0 or 1 if a is less than, equal to, or greater than b, respectively. [first, last) must be sorted. The return value is an iterator pointing to the found element, or LAST if no element was found. */ template It binary_search (It first, It last, T el, Comp comp) { auto lt = [&] (const typename std::iterator_traits::value_type &a, const T &b) { return comp (a, b) < 0; }; auto lb = std::lower_bound (first, last, el, lt); if (lb != last) { if (comp (*lb, el) == 0) return lb; } return last; } } /* namespace gdb */ #endif /* GDBSUPPORT_GDB_BINARY_SEARCH_H */