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Diffstat (limited to 'vppinfra')
-rw-r--r-- | vppinfra/vppinfra/vec.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/vppinfra/vppinfra/vec.h b/vppinfra/vppinfra/vec.h index 3e8d7c023a4..79954f3dbd1 100644 --- a/vppinfra/vppinfra/vec.h +++ b/vppinfra/vppinfra/vec.h @@ -59,10 +59,13 @@ ... ~~~~~~~~ - A user is returned a pointer to element # 1. - Null pointer vectors are valid and mean a zero length vector. - You can also have an allocated non-null zero length vector by just - setting the vector length field to zero (e.g. _vec_len (v) = 0). + The user pointer contains the address of vector element # 0. Null + pointer vectors are valid and mean a zero length vector. + + You can reset the length of an allocated vector to zero via the + vec_reset_length(v) macro, or by setting the vector length field to + zero (e.g. _vec_len (v) = 0). Vec_reset_length(v) preferred: it + understands Null pointers. Typically, the header is not present. Headers allow for other data structures to be built atop CLIB vectors. |