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authormmichelson <mmichelson@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b>2010-02-16 21:16:44 +0000
committermmichelson <mmichelson@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b>2010-02-16 21:16:44 +0000
commit76c3b063398bebcb47a2b6c197f2a68ed18022e3 (patch)
tree4885e7292efd2e340b97f248f7474b15f5ae8658
parent819f1629fa7f29978d3e7001568539a7c0c7dc2c (diff)
Merged revisions 246985 via svnmerge from
https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk ........ r246985 | mmichelson | 2010-02-16 15:15:38 -0600 (Tue, 16 Feb 2010) | 3 lines Add some clarifying documentation to the ast_str_set and ast_str_append functions. ........ git-svn-id: http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.6.0@246986 f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b
-rw-r--r--include/asterisk/strings.h9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asterisk/strings.h b/include/asterisk/strings.h
index e145e2b90..71106eabc 100644
--- a/include/asterisk/strings.h
+++ b/include/asterisk/strings.h
@@ -327,11 +327,16 @@ int ast_get_timeval(const char *src, struct timeval *tv, struct timeval _default
* ast_str_set_va(&buf, max_len, ap)
* ast_str_append_va(&buf, max_len, ap)
*
- * \arg max_len The maximum allowed length, reallocating if needed.
+ * \param max_len The maximum allowed capacity of the ast_str. Note that
+ * if the value of max_len is less than the current capacity of the
+ * ast_str (as returned by ast_str_size), then the parameter is effectively
+ * ignored.
* 0 means unlimited, -1 means "at most the available space"
*
* \return All the functions return <0 in case of error, or the
- * length of the string added to the buffer otherwise.
+ * length of the string added to the buffer otherwise. Note that
+ * in most cases where an error is returned, characters ARE written
+ * to the ast_str.
*/
/*! \brief The descriptor of a dynamic string