Bill Allombert on Fri, 27 May 2022 16:40:58 +0200


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Re: gen_search on 2.13.4 vs 2.14


On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 02:05:58PM +0000, James Rickards wrote:
> I was switching between 2.13.4 and 2.14, and noticed that gen_search
> is different. In particular, in 2.14, the flag that allows for
> returning the insertion index has been removed.

Yes Karim changed the API:

    16- gen_search / vecvecsmall_search: remove flag; the result is now
        positive if the element is found else -i if element should be
        inserted at position i.

To recover the result with flag=1, just check the sign of the result.

Cheers,
Bill