#include <search.h>
typedef enum { preorder, postorder, endorder, leaf } VISIT;
void *tsearch(const void *key, void **rootp,
int (*compar)(const void *, const void *));
void *tfind(const void *key, void *const *rootp,
int (*compar)(const void *, const void *));
void *tdelete(const void *restrict key, void **restrict rootp,
int (*compar)(const void *, const void *));
void twalk(const void *root,
void (*action)(const void *nodep, VISIT which,
int depth));
#define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <search.h>
void twalk_r(const void *root,
void (*action)(const void *nodep, VISIT which,
void *closure),
void *closure);
void tdestroy(void *root, void (*free_node)(void *nodep));
tsearch() searches the tree for an item. key points to the item to be searched for. rootp points to a variable which points to the root of the tree. If the tree is empty, then the variable that rootp points to should be set to NULL. If the item is found in the tree, then tsearch() returns a pointer to the corresponding tree node. (In other words, tsearch() returns a pointer to a pointer to the data item.) If the item is not found, then tsearch() adds it, and returns a pointer to the corresponding tree node.
tfind() is like tsearch(), except that if the item is not found, then tfind() returns NULL.
tdelete() deletes an item from the tree. Its arguments are the same as for tsearch().
twalk() performs depth-first, left-to-right traversal of a binary tree. root points to the starting node for the traversal. If that node is not the root, then only part of the tree will be visited. twalk() calls the user function action each time a node is visited (that is, three times for an internal node, and once for a leaf). action, in turn, takes three arguments. The first argument is a pointer to the node being visited. The structure of the node is unspecified, but it is possible to cast the pointer to a pointer-to-pointer-to-element in order to access the element stored within the node. The application must not modify the structure pointed to by this argument. The second argument is an integer which takes one of the values preorder, postorder, or endorder depending on whether this is the first, second, or third visit to the internal node, or the value leaf if this is the single visit to a leaf node. (These symbols are defined in <search.h>.) The third argument is the depth of the node; the root node has depth zero.
(More commonly, preorder, postorder, and endorder are known as preorder, inorder, and postorder: before visiting the children, after the first and before the second, and after visiting the children. Thus, the choice of name postorder is rather confusing.)
twalk_r() is similar to twalk(), but instead of the depth argument, the closure argument pointer is passed to each invocation of the action callback, unchanged. This pointer can be used to pass information to and from the callback function in a thread-safe fashion, without resorting to global variables.
tdestroy() removes the whole tree pointed to by root, freeing all resources allocated by the tsearch() function. For the data in each tree node the function free_node is called. The pointer to the data is passed as the argument to the function. If no such work is necessary, free_node must point to a function doing nothing.
tdelete() returns a pointer to the parent of the node deleted, or NULL if the item was not found. If the deleted node was the root node, tdelete() returns a dangling pointer that must not be accessed.
tsearch(), tfind(), and tdelete() also return NULL if rootp was NULL on entry.
| Interface | Attribute | Value |
| tsearch(), tfind(), tdelete() | Thread safety | MT-Safe race:rootp |
| twalk() | Thread safety | MT-Safe race:root |
| twalk_r() | Thread safety | MT-Safe race:root |
| tdestroy() | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
tdelete() frees the memory required for the node in the tree. The user is responsible for freeing the memory for the corresponding data.
The example program depends on the fact that twalk() makes no further reference to a node after calling the user function with argument "endorder" or "leaf". This works with the GNU library implementation, but is not in the System V documentation.
#define _GNU_SOURCE /* Expose declaration of tdestroy() */ #include <search.h> #include <stddef.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <time.h>
static void *root = NULL;
static void *
xmalloc(size_t n)
{
void *p;
p = malloc(n);
if (p)
return p;
fprintf(stderr, "insufficient memory\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
static int
compare(const void *pa, const void *pb)
{
if (*(int *) pa < *(int *) pb)
return -1;
if (*(int *) pa > *(int *) pb)
return 1;
return 0;
}
static void
action(const void *nodep, VISIT which, int depth)
{
int *datap;
switch (which) {
case preorder:
break;
case postorder:
datap = *(int **) nodep;
printf("%6d\n", *datap);
break;
case endorder:
break;
case leaf:
datap = *(int **) nodep;
printf("%6d\n", *datap);
break;
}
}
int
main(void)
{
int **val;
srand(time(NULL));
for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
int *ptr = xmalloc(sizeof(*ptr));
*ptr = rand() & 0xff;
val = tsearch(ptr, &root, compare);
if (val == NULL)
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
else if (*val != ptr)
free(ptr);
}
twalk(root, action);
tdestroy(root, free);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}