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Container keys
- From: John Levon <levon at movementarian dot org>
- To: Jim Keniston <jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:24:52 +0100
- Subject: Container keys
- References: <1114730172.2536.2.camel@dyn9047018078.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:16:12PM -0700, Jim Keniston wrote:
> - container/keys larger than long for associative array indexing?
> [Martin]
> Should be no problem if we agree to go with 64-bit keys.
I'm concerned by the mention in the docs that only "one or two strings,
or a long" is acceptable as a key to the associative containers. Why?
It seems unnecessarily restrictive. Certainly in my use of DTrace it was
rather common to use numerous data items as keys to a single container.
thanks,
john