NAME

       mchartable - Create a new chartable.

SYNOPSIS

       MCharTable* mchartable (MSymbol key, void * default_value)

DESCRIPTION

       Create a new chartable. The mchartable() function creates a new chartable object with
       symbol key and the default value default_value.  If key is a managing key, the elements of
       the table (including the default value) are managed objects or NULL.

RETURN VALUE

           If the operation was successful, mchartable() returns a pointer to the created
           chartable. Otherwise it returns NULL and assigns an error code to the external
           variable merror_code.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
       Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
       (AIST)
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
       the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.