In fact, many of the functions in this area don't actually need to
return anything, so we can trim some code and hopefully reduce confusion a bit. Patch attached.
Nice cleanup! Two minor comments:
(1) Names like `getXXX` for these functions suggest to me that they return a value, rather than side-effecting. I realize some variants continue to return a value, but the majority no longer do. Perhaps a name like lookupXXX() or readXXX() would be clearer?
(2) These functions malloc() a single ntups * sizeof(struct) allocation and then index into it to fill-in each struct before entering it into the hash table. It might be more straightforward to just malloc each individual struct.
