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-rw-r--r--src/vector.c23
-rw-r--r--src/vector.h14
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/src/vector.c b/src/vector.c
index 6638fbe..e90a3f2 100644
--- a/src/vector.c
+++ b/src/vector.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: vector.c,v 1.8 2003-05-29 21:07:22 rjkaes Exp $
+/* $Id: vector.c,v 1.9 2003-05-30 16:21:48 rjkaes Exp $
*
* A vector implementation. The vector can be of an arbitrary length, and
* the data for each entry is an lump of data (the size is stored in the
@@ -168,23 +168,20 @@ vector_prepend(vector_t vector, void *data, ssize_t len)
}
/*
- * A pointer to the data at position "pos" (zero based) is returned in the
- * "data" pointer. If the vector is out of bound, data is set to NULL.
+ * A pointer to the data at position "pos" (zero based) is returned.
+ * If the vector is out of bound, data is set to NULL.
*
* Returns: negative upon an error
* length of data if position is valid
*/
-ssize_t
-vector_getentry(vector_t vector, size_t pos, void **data)
+void *
+vector_getentry(vector_t vector, size_t pos, size_t* size)
{
struct vectorentry_s *ptr;
size_t loc;
- if (!vector || !data)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- if (pos < 0 || pos >= vector->num_entries)
- return -ERANGE;
+ if (!vector || pos < 0 || pos >= vector->num_entries)
+ return NULL;
loc = 0;
ptr = vector->head;
@@ -194,8 +191,10 @@ vector_getentry(vector_t vector, size_t pos, void **data)
loc++;
}
- *data = ptr->data;
- return ptr->len;
+ if (size)
+ *size = ptr->len;
+
+ return ptr->data;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/vector.h b/src/vector.h
index 1600ce8..c125e85 100644
--- a/src/vector.h
+++ b/src/vector.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: vector.h,v 1.3 2003-05-29 21:07:22 rjkaes Exp $
+/* $Id: vector.h,v 1.4 2003-05-30 16:21:47 rjkaes Exp $
*
* A vector implementation. The vector can be of an arbritrary length, and
* the data for each entry is an lump of data (the size is stored in the
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ extern int vector_append(vector_t vector, void *data, ssize_t len);
extern int vector_prepend(vector_t vector, void *data, ssize_t len);
/*
- * A pointer to the data at position "pos" (zero based) is returned in the
- * "data" pointer. If the vector is out of bound, data is set to NULL.
+ * A pointer to the data at position "pos" (zero based) is returned and the
+ * size pointer contains the length of the data stored.
*
* The pointer points to the actual data in the vector, so you have
* the power to modify the data, but do it responsibly since the
@@ -65,10 +65,12 @@ extern int vector_prepend(vector_t vector, void *data, ssize_t len);
* likely mess up the "length" parameter of the data.) However, DON'T
* try to realloc or free the data; doing so will break the vector.
*
- * Returns: negative upon an error
- * length of data if position is valid
+ * If "size" is NULL the size of the data is not returned.
+ *
+ * Returns: NULL on error
+ * valid pointer to data
*/
-extern ssize_t vector_getentry(vector_t vector, size_t pos, void **data);
+extern void* vector_getentry(vector_t vector, size_t pos, size_t* size);
/*
* Returns the number of enteries (or the length) of the vector.