/** @brief Returns the position of the element in the dynar
*
- * Raises not_found_error if not found.
+ * Raises not_found_error if not found. If you have less than 2 millions elements,
+ * you probably want to use #xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() instead, so that you
+ * don't have to TRY/CATCH on element not found.
*/
unsigned int xbt_dynar_search(xbt_dynar_t const dynar, void *const elem)
{
dynar);
}
+/** @brief Returns the position of the element in the dynar (or -1 if not found)
+ *
+ * Note that usually, the dynar indices are unsigned integers. If you have more
+ * than 2 million elements in your dynar, this very function will not work (but the other will).
+ */
+signed int xbt_dynar_search_or_negative(xbt_dynar_t const dynar, void *const elem)
+{
+ unsigned long it;
+
+ _dynar_lock(dynar);
+ for (it = 0; it < dynar->used; it++)
+ if (!memcmp(_xbt_dynar_elm(dynar, it), elem, dynar->elmsize)) {
+ _dynar_unlock(dynar);
+ return it;
+ }
+
+ _dynar_unlock(dynar);
+ return -1;
+}
+
/** @brief Returns a boolean indicating whether the element is part of the dynar */
int xbt_dynar_member(xbt_dynar_t const dynar, void *const elem)
{
