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1 /* vsprintf with automatic memory allocation.
2 Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
15 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 #ifndef _VASNPRINTF_H
19 #define _VASNPRINTF_H
21 /* Get va_list. */
22 #include <stdarg.h>
24 /* Get size_t. */
25 #include <stddef.h>
27 #ifndef __attribute__
28 /* This feature is available in gcc versions 2.5 and later. */
29 # if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 5) || __STRICT_ANSI__
30 # define __attribute__(Spec) /* empty */
31 # endif
32 /* The __-protected variants of `format' and `printf' attributes
33 are accepted by gcc versions 2.6.4 (effectively 2.7) and later. */
34 # if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 7)
35 # define __format__ format
36 # define __printf__ printf
37 # endif
38 #endif
40 #ifdef __cplusplus
41 extern "C" {
42 #endif
44 /* Write formatted output to a string dynamically allocated with malloc().
45 You can pass a preallocated buffer for the result in RESULTBUF and its
46 size in *LENGTHP; otherwise you pass RESULTBUF = NULL.
47 If successful, return the address of the string (this may be = RESULTBUF
48 if no dynamic memory allocation was necessary) and set *LENGTHP to the
49 number of resulting bytes, excluding the trailing NUL. Upon error, set
50 errno and return NULL. */
51 extern char * asnprintf (char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, ...)
52 __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 4)));
53 extern char * vasnprintf (char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, va_list args)
54 __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 0)));
56 #ifdef __cplusplus
58 #endif
60 #endif /* _VASNPRINTF_H */