On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:16:16AM +0100, Darshit Shah wrote: > I recently tried to use the hash table implementation in gnulib which resides > in the "hash" module. However, I quickly realised that the hash table in > gnulib > seems to be what is otherwise popularly known as a hash set, i.e., it supports > storing and retrieving just values from the structure. > > On the other hand, a hash table is usually expected to have a key->value > mapping that is stored. > > Within GNU Wget, we have a fairly portable version of a hash table implemented > which I think would be a good addition for gnulib. What do you think? > > If I get a positive response here, I could extract that code and turn it into > a > hash table module for gnulib. We should be able to reuse some part of the > existing code in "hash.c" for this purpose as well
Can you point to the Wget hash table? I'm pretty fond of the hash table implementation we have in PSPP: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/tree/src/libpspp/hmap.h http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/tree/src/libpspp/hmap.c
