A patch for libwapcaplet
Daniel Silverstone
dsilvers at netsurf-browser.org
Thu Jun 18 13:46:30 BST 2009
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:34 +0800, Bo Yang wrote:
> Hi,
> Sometimes, we need to use the lwc_string as a key of hash_table,
> and I think the best key for a lwc_string is the hash value of it. So,
> I add a new function to expose the hash value of a lwc_string, please
> review it, any comments are welcomed, thanks!
The hash value is *NOT* guaranteed unique.
The *pointer* of the lwc_string is both unique, and guaranteed to exist
only once for a given string stored in a given state, thus allowing
pointer-equality tests.
I'm strongly against exposing the internals of how libwapcaplet works in
this manner.
jmb?
D.
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