Method write_metadata

libCacheSim/dataStructure/sparsepp/spp.h:1603–1612

    // just the bitmap and size.  Meant to be used with table I/O.
    // --------------------------------------------------------------
    template <typename OUTPUT> bool write_metadata(OUTPUT *fp) const
    {
        // warning: we write 4 or 8 bytes for the bitmap, instead of 6 in the
        //          original google sparsehash
        // ------------------------------------------------------------------
        if (!sparsehash_internal::write_data(fp, &_bitmap, sizeof(_bitmap)))
            return false;

        return true;
    }

    // Reading destroys the old group contents!  Returns true if all was ok.
    template <typename INPUT> bool read_metadata(allocator_type &alloc, INPUT *fp)