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Re: hash locate_matching_entry()
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: hash locate_matching_entry() |
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:47:10 -0700 |
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Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:25:19AM -0400, Jason Stover wrote:
>> Should this line be:
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>> if (entry == NULL || h->compare (entry, target, h->aux))
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> John just clarified over IRC that the return value here is supposed to be
> strcmp-ish: 0 for a match.
This convention is always slightly confusing. I think I'm going
to start trying to use the suffix "_3way" on functions that do
3-way strcmp-like comparisons, following the pattern of the C++
STL function lexicographical_compare_3way().
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Ben Pfaff
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