AUTHTABLE(3)

💖 AUTHTABLE(3) — AUT STRUCTURE DEFINITIONS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to section 3 of the manual (that's the library-functions girlies ✨), and today's main character is the authtable structure. she's a hash table. she's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

authtable — hash table structure

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically? the authtable structure is what we use to describe a hash table. like, it's the little ID card the hash table carries around. no cap 💅

the declarations you need to actually work on authtable live in the header file /labo/include/aut101.h, where '101' is the actual aut version (so don't come for me if your number is different, it's giving version-dependent, iykyk).

the following C structure supports the description of a hash element — and yes, you're getting the whole thing, character for character, because we do not paraphrase structs in this house:

typedef struct authtable
{
  authelem ∗TABLE;
  long      TABLE_SIZE;
  long      NUMBER_ELEM;
  long      NUMBER_ADD;
  long      NUMBER_SCAN;
  long      NUMBER_DEL;
  long      NUMBER_STRETCH;
} authtable;

and now the field-by-field breakdown, because every single one of these matters 🔥

TABLE

TABLE is the hash element array. the actual storage, the moment, the whole vibe.

TABLE_SIZE

TABLE_SIZE is the size of the hash table.

NUMBER_ELEM

NUMBER_ELEM is the number of element in the hash table. (yes, "element", singular, that's what it says, we respect the original wording in this group chat 🙈)

NUMBER_ADD

NUMBER_ADD is the number of added elements.

NUMBER_SCAN

NUMBER_SCAN is the number of scans to find an element. the little search counter that's been through some things 😭

NUMBER_DEL

NUMBER_DEL is the number of deleted elements.

NUMBER_STRETCH

NUMBER_STRETCH is the number of hash table stretch. she stretched, she's thriving 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

aut(1), authtable(3),

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little sign-off from the source: this beauty comes from ASIM/LIP6, dated October 1, 1997 — vintage, archival, still slaying ✨💖🎀