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dictcreate(3)

dictCreate – create new dictionary.

Synopsis

#include <util/dict.h>

NEOERR *dictCreate(dictCtx *dict, BOOL threaded, UINT32 root, UINT32 maxLevel, 
    UINT32 flushLimit, BOOL useCase, 
    dictFreeValueFunc freeValue, void *freeRock);

Arguments

threaded – true if list should be thread-safe.
root – performance parameter (see above).
maxLevel – performance parameter (see above).
flushLimit – max deleted items to keep cached before
forcing a flush.
useCase – true to be case sensitive in identifiers
freeValue – callback when freeing a value
freeRock – context for freeValue callback

Description

Returns a dictionary. If <threaded> is true, list is multi-thread safe. <root>, <maxLevel>, and <flushLimit> act as for skipNewList() (see skiplist.h)

MT-Level: Safe.

Return Value

None.

See Also

dictDestroy(3), dictCleanup(3), dictReleaseLock(3), dictRemove(3), dictNext(3), dictCreate(3), dictSetValue(3), dictModifyValue(3), dictSearch