binary searches in phobos

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Karen Lanrap schrieb am 2006-12-07:
> At least the searches in phobos/internal/switch.d fail when the 
> length of the searched list reaches int.max/2, because a signed shift 
> is executed instead of an unsigned shift to compute the new "mid" 
> index for checking.
>
> Should this considered to be a bug---or as an academic detection 
> only?

I haven't takten a closer look, but using "int" instead of "size_t" is
most likely a bug.

Please file all bugs, even if they might seem "academic only". Those
are usualy the bugs that are hard to track down and often show up while
porting or using generated code.

Thomas


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