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| author | Niels Provos <provos@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-06-11 19:02:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Niels Provos <provos@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-06-11 19:02:51 +0000 |
| commit | e7478c049fc780b84e5d9267b380f93757391a22 (patch) | |
| tree | d524c26ea1ac86ec796cfc1a97e7ccfb33bdd2ea /share/man/man3 | |
| parent | 1d63876b2a081e96f8b82792d5cfe5dac37eb667 (diff) | |
document return values
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man3/tree.3 | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man3/tree.3 b/share/man/man3/tree.3 index 897a405444b..60b5d1b7d57 100644 --- a/share/man/man3/tree.3 +++ b/share/man/man3/tree.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: tree.3,v 1.5 2002/04/22 16:41:54 provos Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: tree.3,v 1.6 2002/06/11 19:02:50 provos Exp $ .\"/* .\" * Copyright 2002 Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu> .\" * All rights reserved. @@ -432,5 +432,22 @@ for (var = SPLAY_MIN(NAME, head); var != NULL; var = nxt) { free(var); } .Ed +.Pp +Both +.Fn RB_INSERT +and +.Fn SPLAY_INSERT +return +.Va NULL +if the element was inserted in the tree successfully, otherwise they +return a pointer to the element with the colliding key. +.Pp +Accordingly, +.Fn RB_REMOVE +and +.Fn SPLAY_REMOVE +return the pointer to the removed element otherwise they return +.Va NULL +to indicate an error. .Sh AUTHORS The author of the tree macros is Niels Provos. |