1 //=== FileOutputBuffer.h - File Output Buffer -------------------*- C++ -*-===//
3 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9 // Utility for creating a in-memory buffer that will be written to a file.
11 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
13 #ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_FILEOUTPUTBUFFER_H
14 #define LLVM_SUPPORT_FILEOUTPUTBUFFER_H
16 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallString.h"
17 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
18 #include "llvm/Support/DataTypes.h"
19 #include "llvm/Support/Error.h"
20 #include "llvm/Support/FileSystem.h"
23 /// FileOutputBuffer - This interface provides simple way to create an in-memory
24 /// buffer which will be written to a file. During the lifetime of these
25 /// objects, the content or existence of the specified file is undefined. That
26 /// is, creating an OutputBuffer for a file may immediately remove the file.
27 /// If the FileOutputBuffer is committed, the target file's content will become
28 /// the buffer content at the time of the commit. If the FileOutputBuffer is
29 /// not committed, the file will be deleted in the FileOutputBuffer destructor.
30 class FileOutputBuffer
{
33 /// set the 'x' bit on the resulting file
37 /// Factory method to create an OutputBuffer object which manages a read/write
38 /// buffer of the specified size. When committed, the buffer will be written
39 /// to the file at the specified path.
41 /// When F_modify is specified and \p FilePath refers to an existing on-disk
42 /// file \p Size may be set to -1, in which case the entire file is used.
43 /// Otherwise, the file shrinks or grows as necessary based on the value of
44 /// \p Size. It is an error to specify F_modify and Size=-1 if \p FilePath
46 static Expected
<std::unique_ptr
<FileOutputBuffer
>>
47 create(StringRef FilePath
, size_t Size
, unsigned Flags
= 0);
49 /// Returns a pointer to the start of the buffer.
50 virtual uint8_t *getBufferStart() const = 0;
52 /// Returns a pointer to the end of the buffer.
53 virtual uint8_t *getBufferEnd() const = 0;
55 /// Returns size of the buffer.
56 virtual size_t getBufferSize() const = 0;
58 /// Returns path where file will show up if buffer is committed.
59 StringRef
getPath() const { return FinalPath
; }
61 /// Flushes the content of the buffer to its file and deallocates the
62 /// buffer. If commit() is not called before this object's destructor
63 /// is called, the file is deleted in the destructor. The optional parameter
64 /// is used if it turns out you want the file size to be smaller than
65 /// initially requested.
66 virtual Error
commit() = 0;
68 /// If this object was previously committed, the destructor just deletes
69 /// this object. If this object was not committed, the destructor
70 /// deallocates the buffer and the target file is never written.
71 virtual ~FileOutputBuffer() {}
73 /// This removes the temporary file (unless it already was committed)
74 /// but keeps the memory mapping alive.
75 virtual void discard() {}
78 FileOutputBuffer(StringRef Path
) : FinalPath(Path
) {}
80 std::string FinalPath
;
82 } // end namespace llvm