Normalizing the bitmap APIs.

Diego Novillo dnovillo@google.com
Thu Oct 11 21:57:00 GMT 2012


On 2012-10-11 16:25 , Lawrence Crowl wrote:
> On 10/11/12, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
>> On 2012-10-11 13:26 , Lawrence Crowl wrote:
>>> My only other concern was that the mapping between those function
>>> names and the tasks to be done sometimes seemed less than obvious.
>>> So, I proposed the name change.  However, I think the current names
>>> are workable, assuming an acceptable solution to the above problem.
>>
>> I would say, add both variants and make the empty ones drop the return
>> value.  So, for instance, bitmap_ior returns a value, so make
>> bitmap_ior_cg drop it.
>
> That convention is opposite from what is used in sbitmap, where _cg
> indicates that it returns the bool.  I think returning the value
> will be the less common case.

Sorry, I mixed the two up.  I meant the version that makes sense.


Diego.



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