Fneeded, Fneeded32(3fml)

Name

Fneeded(), Fneeded32() - compute size needed for buffer

Synopsis

#include <stdio.h> 
#include "fml.h" 
 
long 
Fneeded(FLDOCC F, FLDLEN V) 
 
#include "fml32.h" 
 
long 
Fneeded32(FLDOCC32 F, FLDLEN32 V)

Description

Fneeded() is used to determine the space that must be allocated for a fielded buffer. The F argument is the number of fields, and the V argument is the space for all field values, in bytes.

Fneeded32() is used with 32-bit FML.

A thread in a multithreaded application may issue a call to Fneeded() or Fneeded32() while running in any context state, including TPINVALIDCONTEXT.

Return Values

This function returns -1 on error and sets Ferror to indicate the error condition.

Errors

Under the following conditions, Fneeded() fails and sets Ferror to:

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