Mark functions with G_GNUC_MALLOC when appropriate.
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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
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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 #else
54 #define G_GNUC_PURE
55 #endif
57 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 4)
58 #define G_GNUC_PRINTF( format_idx, arg_idx ) \
59 __attribute__((__format__ (__printf__, format_idx, arg_idx)))
60 #define G_GNUC_SCANF( format_idx, arg_idx ) \
61 __attribute__((__format__ (__scanf__, format_idx, arg_idx)))
62 #define G_GNUC_FORMAT( arg_idx ) \
63 __attribute__((__format_arg__ (arg_idx)))
64 #define G_GNUC_NORETURN \
65 __attribute__((__noreturn__))
66 #define G_GNUC_CONST \
67 __attribute__((__const__))
68 #define G_GNUC_UNUSED \
69 __attribute__((__unused__))
70 #define G_GNUC_NO_INSTRUMENT \
71 __attribute__((__no_instrument_function__))
72 #define G_GNUC_MALLOC \
73 __attribute__((__malloc__))
74 #else /* !__GNUC__ */
75 #define G_GNUC_PRINTF( format_idx, arg_idx )
76 #define G_GNUC_SCANF( format_idx, arg_idx )
77 #define G_GNUC_FORMAT( arg_idx )
78 #define G_GNUC_NORETURN
79 #define G_GNUC_CONST
80 #define G_GNUC_UNUSED
81 #define G_GNUC_NO_INSTRUMENT
82 #define G_GNUC_MALLOC
83 #endif /* !__GNUC__ */
85 #if __GNUC__ > 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 1)
86 #define G_GNUC_DEPRECATED \
87 __attribute__((__deprecated__))
88 #else
89 #define G_GNUC_DEPRECATED
90 #endif /* __GNUC__ */
92 /* Wrap the gcc __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ and __FUNCTION__ variables with
93 * macros, so we can refer to them as strings unconditionally.
94 * usage not-recommended since gcc-3.0
96 #if defined (__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ < 3)
97 #define G_GNUC_FUNCTION __FUNCTION__
98 #define G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION __PRETTY_FUNCTION__
99 #else /* !__GNUC__ */
100 #define G_GNUC_FUNCTION ""
101 #define G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION ""
102 #endif /* !__GNUC__ */
104 #define G_STRINGIFY(macro_or_string) G_STRINGIFY_ARG (macro_or_string)
105 #define G_STRINGIFY_ARG(contents) #contents
107 /* Provide a string identifying the current code position */
108 #if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ < 3) && !defined(__cplusplus)
109 # define G_STRLOC __FILE__ ":" G_STRINGIFY (__LINE__) ":" __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ "()"
110 #else
111 # define G_STRLOC __FILE__ ":" G_STRINGIFY (__LINE__)
112 #endif
114 /* Provide a string identifying the current function, non-concatenatable */
115 #if defined (__GNUC__)
116 # define G_STRFUNC ((const char*) (__PRETTY_FUNCTION__))
117 #elif defined (G_HAVE_ISO_VARARGS)
118 # define G_STRFUNC ((const char*) (__func__))
119 #else
120 # define G_STRFUNC ((const char*) ("???"))
121 #endif
123 /* Guard C code in headers, while including them from C++ */
124 #ifdef __cplusplus
125 # define G_BEGIN_DECLS extern "C" {
126 # define G_END_DECLS }
127 #else
128 # define G_BEGIN_DECLS
129 # define G_END_DECLS
130 #endif
132 /* Provide definitions for some commonly used macros.
133 * Some of them are only provided if they haven't already
134 * been defined. It is assumed that if they are already
135 * defined then the current definition is correct.
137 #ifndef NULL
138 # ifdef __cplusplus
139 # define NULL (0L)
140 # else /* !__cplusplus */
141 # define NULL ((void*) 0)
142 # endif /* !__cplusplus */
143 #endif
145 #ifndef FALSE
146 #define FALSE (0)
147 #endif
149 #ifndef TRUE
150 #define TRUE (!FALSE)
151 #endif
153 #undef MAX
154 #define MAX(a, b) (((a) > (b)) ? (a) : (b))
156 #undef MIN
157 #define MIN(a, b) (((a) < (b)) ? (a) : (b))
159 #undef ABS
160 #define ABS(a) (((a) < 0) ? -(a) : (a))
162 #undef CLAMP
163 #define CLAMP(x, low, high) (((x) > (high)) ? (high) : (((x) < (low)) ? (low) : (x)))
165 /* Count the number of elements in an array. The array must be defined
166 * as such; using this with a dynamically allocated array will give
167 * incorrect results.
169 #define G_N_ELEMENTS(arr) (sizeof (arr) / sizeof ((arr)[0]))
171 /* Macros by analogy to GINT_TO_POINTER, GPOINTER_TO_INT
173 #define GPOINTER_TO_SIZE(p) ((gsize) (p))
174 #define GSIZE_TO_POINTER(s) ((gpointer) (gsize) (s))
176 /* Provide convenience macros for handling structure
177 * fields through their offsets.
179 #define G_STRUCT_OFFSET(struct_type, member) \
180 ((glong) ((guint8*) &((struct_type*) 0)->member))
181 #define G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P(struct_p, struct_offset) \
182 ((gpointer) ((guint8*) (struct_p) + (glong) (struct_offset)))
183 #define G_STRUCT_MEMBER(member_type, struct_p, struct_offset) \
184 (*(member_type*) G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P ((struct_p), (struct_offset)))
186 /* Provide simple macro statement wrappers (adapted from Perl):
187 * G_STMT_START { statements; } G_STMT_END;
188 * can be used as a single statement, as in
189 * if (x) G_STMT_START { ... } G_STMT_END; else ...
191 * For gcc we will wrap the statements within `({' and `})' braces.
192 * For SunOS they will be wrapped within `if (1)' and `else (void) 0',
193 * and otherwise within `do' and `while (0)'.
195 #if !(defined (G_STMT_START) && defined (G_STMT_END))
196 # if defined (__GNUC__) && !defined (__STRICT_ANSI__) && !defined (__cplusplus)
197 # define G_STMT_START (void) __extension__ (
198 # define G_STMT_END )
199 # else
200 # if (defined (sun) || defined (__sun__))
201 # define G_STMT_START if (1)
202 # define G_STMT_END else (void)0
203 # else
204 # define G_STMT_START do
205 # define G_STMT_END while (0)
206 # endif
207 # endif
208 #endif
210 /* Allow the app programmer to select whether or not return values
211 * (usually char*) are const or not. Don't try using this feature for
212 * functions with C++ linkage.
214 #ifdef G_DISABLE_CONST_RETURNS
215 #define G_CONST_RETURN
216 #else
217 #define G_CONST_RETURN const
218 #endif
221 * The G_LIKELY and G_UNLIKELY macros let the programmer give hints to
222 * the compiler about the expected result of an expression. Some compilers
223 * can use this information for optimizations.
225 * The _G_BOOLEAN_EXPR macro is intended to trigger a gcc warning when
226 * putting assignments in g_return_if_fail ().
228 #if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ > 2) && defined(__OPTIMIZE__)
229 #define _G_BOOLEAN_EXPR(expr) \
230 __extension__ ({ \
231 int _g_boolean_var_; \
232 if (expr) \
233 _g_boolean_var_ = 1; \
234 else \
235 _g_boolean_var_ = 0; \
236 _g_boolean_var_; \
238 #define G_LIKELY(expr) (__builtin_expect (_G_BOOLEAN_EXPR(expr), 1))
239 #define G_UNLIKELY(expr) (__builtin_expect (_G_BOOLEAN_EXPR(expr), 0))
240 #else
241 #define G_LIKELY(expr) (expr)
242 #define G_UNLIKELY(expr) (expr)
243 #endif
245 #endif /* __G_MACROS_H__ */