RE: APR patch: No function to return # of keys...

Probably force of habit more than anything else. COM functions always have
outgoing parameters, as the return value is always an HRESULT. :)

Feel free to fix,
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Branko Cibej [mailto:brane@xbc.nu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 5:00 PM
To: 'dev@subversion.tigris.org'
Subject: Re: APR patch: No function to return # of keys...

Bill Tutt wrote:

> +/**
> + * Get the number of keys in the hash table.
> + * @param ht The hash table
> + * @param count Return pointer for the number of keys
> + * @deffunc void apr_hash_count(apr_hash_t *ht, apr_size_t *count);
> + */
> +APR_DECLARE(void) apr_hash_count(apr_hash_t *ht, apr_size_t *count);

Just curious: Why use an output parameter, instead of the return value?
Shouldn't the prototype be

    apr_size_t apr_hash_count(apr_hash_t *ht)
?

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