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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2002-09-28 03:51:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2002-09-28 03:51:42 +0000 |
| commit | 0d1ef15f59c1dd9b5c1cc8e9c2f1719d31c3543e (patch) | |
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(Hash Search Function): Describe that memory must be cleared before calling hcreate_r.
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diff --git a/manual/search.texi b/manual/search.texi index fdc4a7e..45c5abb 100644 --- a/manual/search.texi +++ b/manual/search.texi @@ -362,9 +362,10 @@ The @code{hcreate_r} function initializes the object pointed to by So this function is equivalent to the @code{hcreate} function except that the initialized data structure is controlled by the user. -This allows having more than one hashing table at one time. The -memory necessary for the @code{struct hsearch_data} object can be -allocated dynamically. +This allows having more than one hashing table at one time. The memory +necessary for the @code{struct hsearch_data} object can be allocated +dynamically. It must be initialized with zero before calling this +function. The return value is non-zero if the operation were successful. if the return value is zero something went wrong which probably means the |