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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
6 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
7 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 * This library 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 GNU
12 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
14 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
15 * License along with this library; if not, write to the
16 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
17 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
21 * Modified by the GLib Team and others 1997-2000. See the AUTHORS
22 * file for a list of people on the GLib Team. See the ChangeLog
23 * files for a list of changes. These files are distributed with
24 * GLib at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/.
27 #ifndef __G_UTILS_H__
28 #define __G_UTILS_H__
30 #if !defined (__GLIB_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GLIB_COMPILATION)
31 #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
32 #endif
34 #include <glib/gtypes.h>
35 #include <stdarg.h>
37 G_BEGIN_DECLS
39 /* Define G_VA_COPY() to do the right thing for copying va_list variables.
40 * glibconfig.h may have already defined G_VA_COPY as va_copy or __va_copy.
42 #if !defined (G_VA_COPY)
43 # if defined (__GNUC__) && defined (__PPC__) && (defined (_CALL_SYSV) || defined (_WIN32))
44 # define G_VA_COPY(ap1, ap2) (*(ap1) = *(ap2))
45 # elif defined (G_VA_COPY_AS_ARRAY)
46 # define G_VA_COPY(ap1, ap2) memmove ((ap1), (ap2), sizeof (va_list))
47 # else /* va_list is a pointer */
48 # define G_VA_COPY(ap1, ap2) ((ap1) = (ap2))
49 # endif /* va_list is a pointer */
50 #endif /* !G_VA_COPY */
52 /* inlining hassle. for compilers that don't allow the 'inline' keyword,
53 * mostly because of strict ANSI C compliance or dumbness, we try to fall
54 * back to either '__inline__' or '__inline'.
55 * G_CAN_INLINE is defined in glibconfig.h if the compiler seems to be
56 * actually *capable* to do function inlining, in which case inline
57 * function bodies do make sense. we also define G_INLINE_FUNC to properly
58 * export the function prototypes if no inlining can be performed.
59 * inline function bodies have to be special cased with G_CAN_INLINE and a
60 * .c file specific macro to allow one compiled instance with extern linkage
61 * of the functions by defining G_IMPLEMENT_INLINES and the .c file macro.
63 #if defined (G_HAVE_INLINE) && defined (__GNUC__) && defined (__STRICT_ANSI__)
64 # undef inline
65 # define inline __inline__
66 #elif !defined (G_HAVE_INLINE)
67 # undef inline
68 # if defined (G_HAVE___INLINE__)
69 # define inline __inline__
70 # elif defined (G_HAVE___INLINE)
71 # define inline __inline
72 # else /* !inline && !__inline__ && !__inline */
73 # define inline /* don't inline, then */
74 # endif
75 #endif
76 #ifdef G_IMPLEMENT_INLINES
77 # define G_INLINE_FUNC _GLIB_EXTERN
78 # undef G_CAN_INLINE
79 #elif defined (__GNUC__)
80 # define G_INLINE_FUNC static __inline __attribute__ ((unused))
81 #elif defined (G_CAN_INLINE)
82 # define G_INLINE_FUNC static inline
83 #else /* can't inline */
84 # define G_INLINE_FUNC _GLIB_EXTERN
85 #endif /* !G_INLINE_FUNC */
87 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
88 const gchar * g_get_user_name (void);
89 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
90 const gchar * g_get_real_name (void);
91 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
92 const gchar * g_get_home_dir (void);
93 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
94 const gchar * g_get_tmp_dir (void);
95 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
96 const gchar * g_get_host_name (void);
97 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
98 const gchar * g_get_prgname (void);
99 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
100 void g_set_prgname (const gchar *prgname);
101 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
102 const gchar * g_get_application_name (void);
103 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
104 void g_set_application_name (const gchar *application_name);
106 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
107 void g_reload_user_special_dirs_cache (void);
108 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
109 const gchar * g_get_user_data_dir (void);
110 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
111 const gchar * g_get_user_config_dir (void);
112 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
113 const gchar * g_get_user_cache_dir (void);
114 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
115 const gchar * const * g_get_system_data_dirs (void);
117 #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
118 /* This functions is not part of the public GLib API */
119 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
120 const gchar * const * g_win32_get_system_data_dirs_for_module (void (*address_of_function)(void));
121 #endif
123 #if defined (G_OS_WIN32) && defined (G_CAN_INLINE) && !defined (__cplusplus)
124 /* This function is not part of the public GLib API either. Just call
125 * g_get_system_data_dirs() in your code, never mind that that is
126 * actually a macro and you will in fact call this inline function.
128 static inline const gchar * const *
129 _g_win32_get_system_data_dirs (void)
131 return g_win32_get_system_data_dirs_for_module ((void (*)(void)) &_g_win32_get_system_data_dirs);
133 #define g_get_system_data_dirs _g_win32_get_system_data_dirs
134 #endif
136 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
137 const gchar * const * g_get_system_config_dirs (void);
139 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
140 const gchar * g_get_user_runtime_dir (void);
143 * GUserDirectory:
144 * @G_USER_DIRECTORY_DESKTOP: the user's Desktop directory
145 * @G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOCUMENTS: the user's Documents directory
146 * @G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD: the user's Downloads directory
147 * @G_USER_DIRECTORY_MUSIC: the user's Music directory
148 * @G_USER_DIRECTORY_PICTURES: the user's Pictures directory
149 * @G_USER_DIRECTORY_PUBLIC_SHARE: the user's shared directory
150 * @G_USER_DIRECTORY_TEMPLATES: the user's Templates directory
151 * @G_USER_DIRECTORY_VIDEOS: the user's Movies directory
152 * @G_USER_N_DIRECTORIES: the number of enum values
154 * These are logical ids for special directories which are defined
155 * depending on the platform used. You should use g_get_user_special_dir()
156 * to retrieve the full path associated to the logical id.
158 * The #GUserDirectory enumeration can be extended at later date. Not
159 * every platform has a directory for every logical id in this
160 * enumeration.
162 * Since: 2.14
164 typedef enum {
165 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DESKTOP,
166 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOCUMENTS,
167 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD,
168 G_USER_DIRECTORY_MUSIC,
169 G_USER_DIRECTORY_PICTURES,
170 G_USER_DIRECTORY_PUBLIC_SHARE,
171 G_USER_DIRECTORY_TEMPLATES,
172 G_USER_DIRECTORY_VIDEOS,
174 G_USER_N_DIRECTORIES
175 } GUserDirectory;
177 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
178 const gchar * g_get_user_special_dir (GUserDirectory directory);
181 * GDebugKey:
182 * @key: the string
183 * @value: the flag
185 * Associates a string with a bit flag.
186 * Used in g_parse_debug_string().
188 typedef struct _GDebugKey GDebugKey;
189 struct _GDebugKey
191 const gchar *key;
192 guint value;
195 /* Miscellaneous utility functions
197 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
198 guint g_parse_debug_string (const gchar *string,
199 const GDebugKey *keys,
200 guint nkeys);
202 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
203 gint g_snprintf (gchar *string,
204 gulong n,
205 gchar const *format,
206 ...) G_GNUC_PRINTF (3, 4);
207 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
208 gint g_vsnprintf (gchar *string,
209 gulong n,
210 gchar const *format,
211 va_list args)
212 G_GNUC_PRINTF(3, 0);
214 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
215 void g_nullify_pointer (gpointer *nullify_location);
217 typedef enum
219 G_FORMAT_SIZE_DEFAULT = 0,
220 G_FORMAT_SIZE_LONG_FORMAT = 1 << 0,
221 G_FORMAT_SIZE_IEC_UNITS = 1 << 1
222 } GFormatSizeFlags;
224 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_30
225 gchar *g_format_size_full (guint64 size,
226 GFormatSizeFlags flags);
227 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_30
228 gchar *g_format_size (guint64 size);
230 GLIB_DEPRECATED_FOR(g_format_size)
231 gchar *g_format_size_for_display (goffset size);
233 #ifndef G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
235 * GVoidFunc:
237 * Declares a type of function which takes no arguments
238 * and has no return value. It is used to specify the type
239 * function passed to g_atexit().
241 typedef void (*GVoidFunc) (void);
242 #define ATEXIT(proc) g_ATEXIT(proc)
243 GLIB_DEPRECATED
244 void g_atexit (GVoidFunc func);
246 #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
247 /* It's a bad idea to wrap atexit() on Windows. If the GLib DLL calls
248 * atexit(), the function will be called when the GLib DLL is detached
249 * from the program, which is not what the caller wants. The caller
250 * wants the function to be called when it *itself* exits (or is
251 * detached, in case the caller, too, is a DLL).
253 #if (defined(__MINGW_H) && !defined(_STDLIB_H_)) || (defined(_MSC_VER) && !defined(_INC_STDLIB))
254 int atexit (void (*)(void));
255 #endif
256 #define g_atexit(func) atexit(func)
257 #endif
259 #endif /* G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */
262 /* Look for an executable in PATH, following execvp() rules */
263 GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
264 gchar* g_find_program_in_path (const gchar *program);
266 /* Bit tests
268 G_INLINE_FUNC gint g_bit_nth_lsf (gulong mask,
269 gint nth_bit) G_GNUC_CONST;
270 G_INLINE_FUNC gint g_bit_nth_msf (gulong mask,
271 gint nth_bit) G_GNUC_CONST;
272 G_INLINE_FUNC guint g_bit_storage (gulong number) G_GNUC_CONST;
274 /* inline function implementations
276 #if defined (G_CAN_INLINE) || defined (__G_UTILS_C__)
277 G_INLINE_FUNC gint
278 g_bit_nth_lsf (gulong mask,
279 gint nth_bit)
281 if (G_UNLIKELY (nth_bit < -1))
282 nth_bit = -1;
283 while (nth_bit < ((GLIB_SIZEOF_LONG * 8) - 1))
285 nth_bit++;
286 if (mask & (1UL << nth_bit))
287 return nth_bit;
289 return -1;
291 G_INLINE_FUNC gint
292 g_bit_nth_msf (gulong mask,
293 gint nth_bit)
295 if (nth_bit < 0 || G_UNLIKELY (nth_bit > GLIB_SIZEOF_LONG * 8))
296 nth_bit = GLIB_SIZEOF_LONG * 8;
297 while (nth_bit > 0)
299 nth_bit--;
300 if (mask & (1UL << nth_bit))
301 return nth_bit;
303 return -1;
305 G_INLINE_FUNC guint
306 g_bit_storage (gulong number)
308 #if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ >= 4) && defined(__OPTIMIZE__)
309 return G_LIKELY (number) ?
310 ((GLIB_SIZEOF_LONG * 8U - 1) ^ (guint) __builtin_clzl(number)) + 1 : 1;
311 #else
312 register guint n_bits = 0;
316 n_bits++;
317 number >>= 1;
319 while (number);
320 return n_bits;
321 #endif
323 #endif /* G_CAN_INLINE || __G_UTILS_C__ */
325 #ifndef G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
328 * This macro is deprecated. This DllMain() is too complex. It is
329 * recommended to write an explicit minimal DLlMain() that just saves
330 * the handle to the DLL and then use that handle instead, for
331 * instance passing it to
332 * g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module().
334 * On Windows, this macro defines a DllMain function that stores the
335 * actual DLL name that the code being compiled will be included in.
336 * STATIC should be empty or 'static'. DLL_NAME is the name of the
337 * (pointer to the) char array where the DLL name will be stored. If
338 * this is used, you must also include <windows.h>. If you need a more complex
339 * DLL entry point function, you cannot use this.
341 * On non-Windows platforms, expands to nothing.
344 #ifndef G_PLATFORM_WIN32
345 # define G_WIN32_DLLMAIN_FOR_DLL_NAME(static, dll_name)
346 #else
347 # define G_WIN32_DLLMAIN_FOR_DLL_NAME(static, dll_name) \
348 static char *dll_name; \
350 BOOL WINAPI \
351 DllMain (HINSTANCE hinstDLL, \
352 DWORD fdwReason, \
353 LPVOID lpvReserved) \
355 wchar_t wcbfr[1000]; \
356 char *tem; \
357 switch (fdwReason) \
359 case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH: \
360 GetModuleFileNameW ((HMODULE) hinstDLL, wcbfr, G_N_ELEMENTS (wcbfr)); \
361 tem = g_utf16_to_utf8 (wcbfr, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL); \
362 dll_name = g_path_get_basename (tem); \
363 g_free (tem); \
364 break; \
367 return TRUE; \
370 #endif /* !G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */
372 #endif /* G_PLATFORM_WIN32 */
374 G_END_DECLS
376 #endif /* __G_UTILS_H__ */