Re: [PATCH 03/15] virBitmapToString|virBitmapNewString: Clarify semantics of the 'string'

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(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virbitmap.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virbitmap.c b/src/util/virbitmap.c index ad5213f216..fcb8e1101a 100644 --- a/src/util/virbitmap.c +++ b/src/util/virbitmap.c @@ -328,7 +328,9 @@ virBitmapGetBit(virBitmapPtr bitmap, * virBitmapToString: * @bitmap: Pointer to bitmap * - * Convert @bitmap to printable string. + * Convert @bitmap to printable hexadecimal string representation. Note that bit + * with highest position/index in @bitmap are considered as most significant bit + * in the output string.

* * Returns pointer to the string or NULL on error. */ @@ -1117,10 +1119,13 @@ 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 a string of hexadecimal data. Note + * that leftmost character in the 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)