hashlib package

[Rob Thorpe]

I don't understand the question. None of the things you mention
exist in standard C, so those examples don't help. As I said in
the manual, it handles putting things away, and finding them again
later. I even described all the function calls to it.

They help those who write code exclusively for Unix relatives and
derivatives to understand if they should learn how to use the library.
I would have thought that that's a very useful thing to do.
Non-standard C may be off-topic here, but it will be useful to many
who use the library or read it's docs.

 

[Andy]

CBF was being ironic.

When you x-post to comp.lang.c its as well to be sure you know the
topicality requirement here. That is standard C as definedby the ISO
standard. What extras might be in yuor libc are largely irrelevant, and
could technically render it an "illegal" c implementation.


f:\program files\4nt500>man hcreate
4NT: Unknown command "man"

Hmm.

My 2 cents:

I think it would be a benefit to others to see some comparison to
other implementations of hash tables, even (shame on me) in variants
of C distributions. This eliminates repetitive work or work that is
not at par with existing implementations.
Hmm.