Claims a free slot and returns a pointer to it and its locator; the lower-level half of bucket_array_add.
The element is set to the default value of the type, or left uninitialized with $initialize set to
false, in which case the caller must write all of it.
find_and_occupy_empty_slot :: (
array: *Bucket_Array,
$initialize := true
) -> (*array.type, Bucket_Locator)Takes a free slot, allocating a new bucket when all are full. Returns a pointer to the slot and its locator.
Parameters
- array: *Bucket_Array
- $initialize := true
- set to
falseto leave the slot's bytes as they were.
Returns
- *array.type