Re: [PATCH] x86/unwind: remove unneeded initialization

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:04:42 +0100

Newsgroups	tech.elisa.lists.linux-safety,org.kernel.vger.kernel-janitors,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:49:50AM +0000, Walter Harms wrote:
> this looks like a reimplementation of bsearch()
> perhaps the maintainer can add a comment why the 
> kernel implementation is not suitable here ?

If you look carefully it doesn't do an exact match, which is what
bsearch() does.

bsearch() also isn't stable in the precense of duplicates.