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virBitmapToString|virBitmapNewString: Clarify semantics of the 'string'

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Clarify which bit is considered most significant in the bitmap and
resulting string. Also be explicit that it's a hex string.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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Peter Krempa 2020-10-01 15:52:34 +02:00
parent 8efad320fa
commit 2eada815b5
1 changed files with 10 additions and 4 deletions
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src/util/virbitmap.c
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@ -328,7 +328,9 @@ virBitmapGetBit(virBitmapPtr bitmap,
* virBitmapToString:
* @bitmap: Pointer to bitmap
*
* Convert @bitmap to printable string.
* Convert @bitmap to a number where the bit with highest position/index in
* @bitmap represents the most significant bit and return the number in form
* of a hexadecimal string.
*
* Returns pointer to the string or NULL on error.
*/
@ -1117,10 +1119,14 @@ virBitmapCountBits(virBitmapPtr bitmap)
* virBitmapNewString:
* @string: the string to be converted to a bitmap
*
* Allocate a bitmap from a string of hexadecimal data.
* Allocate a bitmap and populate it from @string representing a number in
* hexadecimal format. Note that the most significant bit of the number
* represented by @string will correspond to the highest index/position in the
* bitmap. The size of the returned bitmap corresponds to 4 * the length of
* @string.
*
* Returns a pointer to the allocated bitmap or NULL if
* memory cannot be allocated.
* Returns a pointer to the allocated bitmap or NULL and reports an error if
* @string can't be converted.
*/
virBitmapPtr
virBitmapNewString(const char *string)