Add a helper function for hashing and writing 64-bit integers in network
byte order. It returns the number of written bytes. This simplifies
callers that keep track of the file offset, even though this number is a
constant.
Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Original-patch-by: Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx>
---
csum-file.h | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/csum-file.h b/csum-file.h
index f9cbd317fb..e54d53d1d0 100644
--- a/csum-file.h
+++ b/csum-file.h
@@ -62,4 +62,11 @@ static inline void hashwrite_be32(struct hashfile *f, uint32_t data)
hashwrite(f, &data, sizeof(data));
}
+static inline size_t hashwrite_be64(struct hashfile *f, uint64_t data)
+{
+ data = htonll(data);
+ hashwrite(f, &data, sizeof(data));
+ return sizeof(data);
+}
+
#endif
--
2.29.2
