Author: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@silcnet.org>
- Copyright (C) 2001 - 2005 Pekka Riikonen
+ Copyright (C) 2001 - 2007 Pekka Riikonen
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
* Implementation of collision resistant hash table. This is a hash table
* that provides a reliable (what you add there stays there, and duplicate
* keys are allowed) with as fast reference to the key as possible. If
- * there are a lot of duplicate keys in the hash table the lookup gets
- * slower of course. However, this is reliable and no data is lost at any
- * point. If you know that you never have duplicate keys then this is as
- * fast as any simple hash table.
+ * there are a lot of duplicate keys in the hash table the lookup slows down.
+ * However, this is reliable and no data is lost at any point. If you know
+ * that you never have duplicate keys then this is as fast as any simple hash
+ * table.
*
* The interface provides many ways to search the hash table including
* an extended interface where caller can specify its own hash and comparison
- * functions.
+ * functions. The interface also supports SilcStack and all memory allocated
+ * by the hash table can be allocated from SilcStack.
*
* There are two ways to traverse the entire hash table if this feature
* is needed. There exists a foreach function that calls a foreach
* SilcHashTableList structure and traverse the hash table inside while()
* using the list structure. Both are equally fast.
*
- * The hash table is not thread safe. If same hash table context is used in
- * multi thread environment concurrency control must be employed.
+ * The hash table is not thread safe. If same SilcHashtable context is used
+ * in multi thread environment concurrency control must be employed.
*
***/
*
* SYNOPSIS
*
- * SilcHashTable silc_hash_table_alloc(SilcUInt32 table_size,
+ * SilcHashTable silc_hash_table_alloc(SilcStack stack,
+ * SilcUInt32 table_size,
* SilcHashFunction hash,
* void *hash_user_context,
* SilcHashCompare compare,
*
* DESCRIPTION
*
- * Allocates new hash table and returns it. If the `table_size' is not
+ * Allocates new hash table and returns it. If the `stack' is non-NULL
+ * the hash table is allocated from `stack'. If the `table_size' is not
* zero then the hash table size is the size provided. If zero then the
* default size will be used. Note that if the `table_size' is provided
* it should be a prime. The `hash', `compare' and `destructor' are
* the hash function, the key comparison function and key and context
* destructor function, respectively. The `hash' is mandatory, the others
- * are optional.
+ * are optional. Returns NULL if system is out of memory.
*
***/
-SilcHashTable silc_hash_table_alloc(SilcUInt32 table_size,
+SilcHashTable silc_hash_table_alloc(SilcStack stack,
+ SilcUInt32 table_size,
SilcHashFunction hash,
void *hash_user_context,
SilcHashCompare compare,
* Frees the hash table. The destructor function provided in the
* silc_hash_table_alloc will be called for all keys in the hash table.
*
+ * If the SilcStack was given to silc_hash_table_alloc this call will
+ * release all memory allocated during the life time of the `ht' back
+ * to the SilcStack.
+ *
***/
void silc_hash_table_free(SilcHashTable ht);
***/
SilcBool silc_hash_table_add(SilcHashTable ht, void *key, void *context);
-/****f* silcutil/SilcHashTableAPI/silc_hash_table_replace
+/****f* silcutil/SilcHashTableAPI/silc_hash_table_set
*
* SYNOPSIS
*
- * SilcBool silc_hash_table_replace(SilcHashTable ht, void *key,
- * void *context);
+ * SilcBool silc_hash_table_set(SilcHashTable ht, void *key,
+ * void *context);
*
* DESCRIPTION
*
* replaced key and context.
*
***/
-SilcBool silc_hash_table_replace(SilcHashTable ht, void *key, void *context);
+SilcBool silc_hash_table_set(SilcHashTable ht, void *key, void *context);
/****f* silcutil/SilcHashTableAPI/silc_hash_table_del
*
* DESCRIPTION
*
* Returns always the next entry in the hash table into the `key' and
- * `context' and TRUE. If this returns FALSE then there are no anymore
- * any entrys.
+ * `context' and TRUE. If this returns FALSE then there are no more
+ * entries.
+ *
+ * EXAMPLE
+ *
+ * SilcHashTableList htl;
+ * silc_hash_table_list(hash_table, &htl);
+ * while (silc_hash_table_get(&htl, (void *)&key, (void *)&context))
+ * ...
+ * silc_hash_table_list_reset(&htl);
*
***/
SilcBool silc_hash_table_get(SilcHashTableList *htl,
SilcHashFunction hash,
void *hash_user_context);
-/****f* silcutil/SilcHashTableAPI/silc_hash_table_replace_ext
+/****f* silcutil/SilcHashTableAPI/silc_hash_table_set_ext
*
* SYNOPSIS
*
- * SilcBool silc_hash_table_replace_ext(SilcHashTable ht, void *key,
- * void *context,
- * SilcHashFunction hash,
- * void *hash_user_context);
+ * SilcBool silc_hash_table_set_ext(SilcHashTable ht, void *key,
+ * void *context,
+ * SilcHashFunction hash,
+ * void *hash_user_context);
*
* DESCRIPTION
*
* function. If not provided the hash table's default is used.
*
***/
-SilcBool silc_hash_table_replace_ext(SilcHashTable ht,
- void *key, void *context,
- SilcHashFunction hash,
- void *hash_user_context);
+SilcBool silc_hash_table_set_ext(SilcHashTable ht,
+ void *key, void *context,
+ SilcHashFunction hash,
+ void *hash_user_context);
/****f* silcutil/SilcHashTableAPI/silc_hash_table_del_ext
*