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