uthash ChangeLog

fix an ifdef for compatibility with Intel compiler (thanks, degski!)

fix HASH_ITER macro to satisfy C++ casting rules (thanks, Erik Bai!)

new HASH_ITER macro for more convenient deletion-safe iteration

hashscan can now run on FreeBSD 8.1 and later (thanks, Markus Gebert!)

More parens to evaluate complex macro arguments properly (thanks, ngg!)

Add sz parameter to the uthash_free hook for platforms that do their own memory management. Hopefully this minor API change doesn’t cause too much breakage for people. (thanks, Niall Douglas!)

uthash has been downloaded 12,294 times

Fix a redefinition warning when using uthash.h and utstring.h together

Fix a bug in utstring_init

Added HASH_FIND_PTR and HASH_ADD_PTR (thanks, Niall Douglas!)

uthash now supports Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 in C or C++ code!

new headers utarray.h and utstring.h are now included. These implement dynamic arrays and strings using macros

utlist.h now has deletion-safe iterators and search macros

the test suite now runs under Visual Studio (thanks again degski!)

special thanks for suggesting utarray and utlist features to Charalampos P.!

uthash has been downloaded 9,616 times

Added the hashscan utility that can report on the size and quality of hash tables in a running process (Linux-only)

Added Bloom filter support. This has the potential to speed up certain types of programs that look up non-existant keys in sufficient numbers.

Restored the MurmurHash, which can once again be used, if an additional symbol is defined. This is a "safety" by which the user declares they understand that -fno-strict-aliasing flag must be used if they are using MurmurHash under gcc with optimization.

Unified the bucket/table malloc hooks; now there is only one malloc hook

Re-organized the manual into a main section and advanced topics section

Fixed a bug in utlist.h where sorting a singly-linked list threw a compile-time error.

Fixed a bug in utlist.h where a doubly-linked list that is sorted did not maintain the special head->prev pointer back to the list tail.

The MurmurHash has been removed, and Jenkin’s hash is once again the default. While MurmurHash performed well, it’s unsafe with regard to the strict aliasing rule. This results in incorrect code when compiled with optimization. It’s not possible to enable -fno-strict-aliasing from within a header file.

The linked list macros in utlist.h now comply with the strict-aliasing rule so they generate correct code under high optimization levels (O2 or O3). The use of the __typeof__ extension, which was originally a GNU extension, may reduce portability to other compilers that do not support this extension. This extension is used in the singly-linked list macros and the sort macros.

Support for two new hash functions:

Because of its excellent performance, MurmurHash is now the default hash function.

keystats now has much better elapsed time accuracy under Cygwin and MinGW

fixed casting in HASH_FNV, HASH_SAX and HASH_OAT for non-char keys

a new HASH_CLEAR operation clears a hash table in one step.

a new HASH_SELECT operation inserts those elements from one hash that satisfy a given condition into another hash. The selected items have dual presence in both hash tables. For example a game could select the visible polygons from a hash of all polygons.

fixed a compile-time error which occurred if the final argument to HASH_ADD_KEYPTR was a pointer to an array member like &a[i]

added another test script tests/all_funcs which executes the test suite using every supported hash function

a new, separate header called utlist.h is included which provides linked list macros for C structures, similar in style to the uthash macros

now thread-safe for concurrent readers

use scratch variables on stack rather than in table (thanks, Petter Arvidsson!). This change made HASH_FIND about 13% faster and enabled reader concurrency.

made BSD license terms even more permissive

added PDF version of User Guide

added update news

Add HASH_COUNT for counting items in the hash

Compatibility with C++. Satisfy additional casting requirements. Also in the tests/ directory, running make cplusplus now compiles all the test programs with the C++ compiler.

Eliminate elmt pointer from the UT_hash_handle. Calculate elmt from hash handle address by subtracting hho (hash handle offset).

Contributed by L.S.Chin: Cast void* to char* before pointer arithmetic to suppress compiler warnings. We assume compilers abide to C standards which impose requirement that sizeof(void*) == sizeof(char*).

Return meaningful exit status from do_tests per Tiago Cunha, so that package manager-based install can verify tests are successful

use integer-only math-- no floating point! Support FPU-less CPU’s.

eliminate hash_q metric, which measured the fraction of items with non-ideal chain positions. We only need to know if this fraction is below 0.5. This is now determined using fast bitwise tests.

when an item is added to the hash, calculate the key’s hash value upfront and store it, instead of recomputing it as needed. This hashv is stored in the hash handle. Potentially major speed benefit for bucket expansion algorithm. Deleting is marginally improved too.

fixed a minor bug in the calculation of the max ideal chain length; line 446 in v1.2 erroneously calculated a/b*2 instead of a/(b*2). The effect of this bug was that bucket expansion could occur more readily because the per-bucket max chain length multiplier factor (which delays bucket expansion when certain buckets are overused) was set to a lower, expansion-favoring value than intended.

improved source commenting and improved variable names in structures

remove HASH_JSW. Lengthy random number array made code less readable

add HASH_SRT(hh,hash,cmp) as a generalized HASH_SORT(hash,cmp). It was an omission in uthash 1.2 that there was no sort macro for hash handles with names other than hh.

Corrected HASH_FSCK so it works with any name for the hash handle.

behave properly in pathological HASH_DEL(a,a) case where the same variable references the head and the deletee (advancing the head then loses the correct reference to the deletee); fix by using scratch area in the hash table to store deletee hash handle.

made tests runnable on MinGW

3000+ downloads since uthash-1.0

new HASH_SORT macro

Cygwin support

User Guide now features a clickable Table of Contents. (The technique for generating the TOC on the browser was contributed back to the AsciiDoc project and incorporated into AsciiDoc v8.1.0).

uthash-1.1 released

supports several built-in user-selectable hash functions

new keystats utility quantifies performance of hash functions

Initial release