struct search_key {
- const char *name;
- const uint64_t *id;
+ const char *name; // if name != NULL search for a string
+ const uint64_t id; // if name == NULL search for an id
+ // The actual data with all entries; this is where the full entry
+ // including name/id is located (the index holds an offset into data for
+ // each entry)
const void *data;
+ // Static offset to the search key (name/id) inside the entry; after it
+ // was located by using the index's offset into data
uint64_t offset;
};
-uint64_t *search(struct search_key *key, const void *index, uint64_t count) __attribute__((visibility("hidden")));
+uint64_t *search(const struct search_key *key, const void *index, uint64_t count) __attribute__((visibility("hidden")));
#endif