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1 /* GLIB - Library of useful routines for C programming
2 * Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball and Josh MacDonald
4 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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21 * Modified by the GLib Team and others 1997-2000. See the AUTHORS
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24 * GLib at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/.
27 /* This file must not include any other glib header file and must thus
28 * not refer to variables from glibconfig.h
31 #ifndef __G_MACROS_H__
32 #define __G_MACROS_H__
34 /* We include stddef.h to get the system's definition of NULL
36 #include <stddef.h>
38 /* Here we provide G_GNUC_EXTENSION as an alias for __extension__,
39 * where this is valid. This allows for warningless compilation of
40 * "long long" types even in the presence of '-ansi -pedantic'.
42 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 8)
43 # define G_GNUC_EXTENSION __extension__
44 #else
45 # define G_GNUC_EXTENSION
46 #endif
48 /* Provide macros to feature the GCC function attribute.
50 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 96)
51 #define G_GNUC_PURE \
52 __attribute__((__pure__))
53 #define G_GNUC_MALLOC \
54 __attribute__((__malloc__))
55 #else
56 #define G_GNUC_PURE
57 #define G_GNUC_MALLOC
58 #endif
60 #if __GNUC__ >= 4
61 #define G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED __attribute__((__sentinel__))
62 #else
63 #define G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED
64 #endif
66 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 4)
67 #define G_GNUC_PRINTF( format_idx, arg_idx ) \
68 __attribute__((__format__ (__printf__, format_idx, arg_idx)))
69 #define G_GNUC_SCANF( format_idx, arg_idx ) \
70 __attribute__((__format__ (__scanf__, format_idx, arg_idx)))
71 #define G_GNUC_FORMAT( arg_idx ) \
72 __attribute__((__format_arg__ (arg_idx)))
73 #define G_GNUC_NORETURN \
74 __attribute__((__noreturn__))
75 #define G_GNUC_CONST \
76 __attribute__((__const__))
77 #define G_GNUC_UNUSED \
78 __attribute__((__unused__))
79 #define G_GNUC_NO_INSTRUMENT \
80 __attribute__((__no_instrument_function__))
81 #else /* !__GNUC__ */
82 #define G_GNUC_PRINTF( format_idx, arg_idx )
83 #define G_GNUC_SCANF( format_idx, arg_idx )
84 #define G_GNUC_FORMAT( arg_idx )
85 #define G_GNUC_NORETURN
86 #define G_GNUC_CONST
87 #define G_GNUC_UNUSED
88 #define G_GNUC_NO_INSTRUMENT
89 #endif /* !__GNUC__ */
91 #if __GNUC__ > 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 1)
92 #define G_GNUC_DEPRECATED \
93 __attribute__((__deprecated__))
94 #else
95 #define G_GNUC_DEPRECATED
96 #endif /* __GNUC__ */
98 #if __GNUC__ > 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3)
99 # define G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS __attribute__((may_alias))
100 #else
101 # define G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS
102 #endif
104 #if __GNUC__ > 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4)
105 #define G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT \
106 __attribute__((warn_unused_result))
107 #else
108 #define G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
109 #endif /* __GNUC__ */
111 #ifndef G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
112 /* Wrap the gcc __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ and __FUNCTION__ variables with
113 * macros, so we can refer to them as strings unconditionally.
114 * usage not-recommended since gcc-3.0
116 #if defined (__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ < 3)
117 #define G_GNUC_FUNCTION __FUNCTION__
118 #define G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION __PRETTY_FUNCTION__
119 #else /* !__GNUC__ */
120 #define G_GNUC_FUNCTION ""
121 #define G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION ""
122 #endif /* !__GNUC__ */
123 #endif /* !G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */
125 #define G_STRINGIFY(macro_or_string) G_STRINGIFY_ARG (macro_or_string)
126 #define G_STRINGIFY_ARG(contents) #contents
128 /* Provide a string identifying the current code position */
129 #if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ < 3) && !defined(__cplusplus)
130 # define G_STRLOC __FILE__ ":" G_STRINGIFY (__LINE__) ":" __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ "()"
131 #else
132 # define G_STRLOC __FILE__ ":" G_STRINGIFY (__LINE__)
133 #endif
135 /* Provide a string identifying the current function, non-concatenatable */
136 #if defined (__GNUC__)
137 # define G_STRFUNC ((const char*) (__PRETTY_FUNCTION__))
138 #elif defined (G_HAVE_ISO_VARARGS)
139 # define G_STRFUNC ((const char*) (__func__))
140 #else
141 # define G_STRFUNC ((const char*) ("???"))
142 #endif
144 /* Guard C code in headers, while including them from C++ */
145 #ifdef __cplusplus
146 # define G_BEGIN_DECLS extern "C" {
147 # define G_END_DECLS }
148 #else
149 # define G_BEGIN_DECLS
150 # define G_END_DECLS
151 #endif
153 /* Provide definitions for some commonly used macros.
154 * Some of them are only provided if they haven't already
155 * been defined. It is assumed that if they are already
156 * defined then the current definition is correct.
158 #ifndef NULL
159 # ifdef __cplusplus
160 # define NULL (0L)
161 # else /* !__cplusplus */
162 # define NULL ((void*) 0)
163 # endif /* !__cplusplus */
164 #endif
166 #ifndef FALSE
167 #define FALSE (0)
168 #endif
170 #ifndef TRUE
171 #define TRUE (!FALSE)
172 #endif
174 #undef MAX
175 #define MAX(a, b) (((a) > (b)) ? (a) : (b))
177 #undef MIN
178 #define MIN(a, b) (((a) < (b)) ? (a) : (b))
180 #undef ABS
181 #define ABS(a) (((a) < 0) ? -(a) : (a))
183 #undef CLAMP
184 #define CLAMP(x, low, high) (((x) > (high)) ? (high) : (((x) < (low)) ? (low) : (x)))
186 /* Count the number of elements in an array. The array must be defined
187 * as such; using this with a dynamically allocated array will give
188 * incorrect results.
190 #define G_N_ELEMENTS(arr) (sizeof (arr) / sizeof ((arr)[0]))
192 /* Macros by analogy to GINT_TO_POINTER, GPOINTER_TO_INT
194 #define GPOINTER_TO_SIZE(p) ((gsize) (p))
195 #define GSIZE_TO_POINTER(s) ((gpointer) (gsize) (s))
197 /* Provide convenience macros for handling structure
198 * fields through their offsets.
200 #define G_STRUCT_OFFSET(struct_type, member) \
201 ((glong) ((guint8*) &((struct_type*) 0)->member))
202 #define G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P(struct_p, struct_offset) \
203 ((gpointer) ((guint8*) (struct_p) + (glong) (struct_offset)))
204 #define G_STRUCT_MEMBER(member_type, struct_p, struct_offset) \
205 (*(member_type*) G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P ((struct_p), (struct_offset)))
207 /* Provide simple macro statement wrappers (adapted from Perl):
208 * G_STMT_START { statements; } G_STMT_END;
209 * can be used as a single statement, as in
210 * if (x) G_STMT_START { ... } G_STMT_END; else ...
212 * When GCC is compiling C code in non-ANSI mode, it will use the
213 * compiler __extension__ to wrap the statements wihin `({' and '})' braces.
214 * When compiling on platforms where configure has defined
215 * HAVE_DOWHILE_MACROS, statements will be wrapped with `do' and `while (0)'.
216 * For any other platforms (SunOS4 is known to have this issue), wrap the
217 * statements with `if (1)' and `else (void) 0'.
219 #if !(defined (G_STMT_START) && defined (G_STMT_END))
220 # if defined (__GNUC__) && !defined (__STRICT_ANSI__) && !defined (__cplusplus)
221 # define G_STMT_START (void) __extension__ (
222 # define G_STMT_END )
223 # else /* !(__GNUC__ && !__STRICT_ANSI__ && !__cplusplus) */
224 # if defined (HAVE_DOWHILE_MACROS)
225 # define G_STMT_START do
226 # define G_STMT_END while (0)
227 # else /* !HAVE_DOWHILE_MACROS */
228 # define G_STMT_START if (1)
229 # define G_STMT_END else (void) 0
230 # endif /* !HAVE_DOWHILE_MACROS */
231 # endif /* !(__GNUC__ && !__STRICT_ANSI__ && !__cplusplus) */
232 #endif
234 /* Allow the app programmer to select whether or not return values
235 * (usually char*) are const or not. Don't try using this feature for
236 * functions with C++ linkage.
238 #ifdef G_DISABLE_CONST_RETURNS
239 #define G_CONST_RETURN
240 #else
241 #define G_CONST_RETURN const
242 #endif
245 * The G_LIKELY and G_UNLIKELY macros let the programmer give hints to
246 * the compiler about the expected result of an expression. Some compilers
247 * can use this information for optimizations.
249 * The _G_BOOLEAN_EXPR macro is intended to trigger a gcc warning when
250 * putting assignments in g_return_if_fail ().
252 #if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ > 2) && defined(__OPTIMIZE__)
253 #define _G_BOOLEAN_EXPR(expr) \
254 __extension__ ({ \
255 int _g_boolean_var_; \
256 if (expr) \
257 _g_boolean_var_ = 1; \
258 else \
259 _g_boolean_var_ = 0; \
260 _g_boolean_var_; \
262 #define G_LIKELY(expr) (__builtin_expect (_G_BOOLEAN_EXPR(expr), 1))
263 #define G_UNLIKELY(expr) (__builtin_expect (_G_BOOLEAN_EXPR(expr), 0))
264 #else
265 #define G_LIKELY(expr) (expr)
266 #define G_UNLIKELY(expr) (expr)
267 #endif
269 #endif /* __G_MACROS_H__ */