public static bool exists( byte[] name )
{
int hash_number = foreign.get_hash_power_number( name, 12 );
bucket _bucket = table[hash_number];
if (_bucket == null)
return false;
for (bucket run = _bucket ; (run != null) ; run = run.next)
if (foreign.bigloo_strcmp( run.symb.pname, name ))
return true;
return false;
}