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1 /* Declarations for getopt.
3 NOTE: getopt is now part of the C library, so if you don't know what
4 "Keep this file name-space clean" means, talk to roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu
5 before changing it!
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8 to list here. Please refer to the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this
9 source distribution.
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13 Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
14 later version.
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17 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
18 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
19 GNU General Public License for more details.
21 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
22 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
23 Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
25 #ifndef _GETOPT_H
26 #define _GETOPT_H 1
28 #ifdef __cplusplus
29 extern "C" {
30 #endif
32 /* For communication from `getopt' to the caller.
33 When `getopt' finds an option that takes an argument,
34 the argument value is returned here.
35 Also, when `ordering' is RETURN_IN_ORDER,
36 each non-option ARGV-element is returned here. */
38 extern char *optarg;
40 /* Index in ARGV of the next element to be scanned.
41 This is used for communication to and from the caller
42 and for communication between successive calls to `getopt'.
44 On entry to `getopt', zero means this is the first call; initialize.
46 When `getopt' returns EOF, this is the index of the first of the
47 non-option elements that the caller should itself scan.
49 Otherwise, `optind' communicates from one call to the next
50 how much of ARGV has been scanned so far. */
52 extern int optind;
54 /* Callers store zero here to inhibit the error message `getopt' prints
55 for unrecognized options. */
57 extern int opterr;
59 /* Set to an option character which was unrecognized. */
61 extern int optopt;
63 /* Describe the long-named options requested by the application.
64 The LONG_OPTIONS argument to getopt_long or getopt_long_only is a vector
65 of `struct option' terminated by an element containing a name which is
66 zero.
68 The field `has_arg' is:
69 no_argument (or 0) if the option does not take an argument,
70 required_argument (or 1) if the option requires an argument,
71 optional_argument (or 2) if the option takes an optional argument.
73 If the field `flag' is not NULL, it points to a variable that is set
74 to the value given in the field `val' when the option is found, but
75 left unchanged if the option is not found.
77 To have a long-named option do something other than set an `int' to
78 a compiled-in constant, such as set a value from `optarg', set the
79 option's `flag' field to zero and its `val' field to a nonzero
80 value (the equivalent single-letter option character, if there is
81 one). For long options that have a zero `flag' field, `getopt'
82 returns the contents of the `val' field. */
84 struct option
86 #if __STDC__
87 const char *name;
88 #else
89 char *name;
90 #endif
91 /* has_arg can't be an enum because some compilers complain about
92 type mismatches in all the code that assumes it is an int. */
93 int has_arg;
94 int *flag;
95 int val;
98 /* Names for the values of the `has_arg' field of `struct option'. */
100 #define no_argument 0
101 #define required_argument 1
102 #define optional_argument 2
104 #if __STDC__
105 #if defined(__GNU_LIBRARY__)
106 /* Many other libraries have conflicting prototypes for getopt, with
107 differences in the consts, in stdlib.h. To avoid compilation
108 errors, only prototype getopt for the GNU C library. */
109 extern int getopt (int argc, char *const *argv, const char *shortopts);
110 #else /* not __GNU_LIBRARY__ */
111 extern int getopt ();
112 #endif /* not __GNU_LIBRARY__ */
113 extern int getopt_long (int argc, char *const *argv, const char *shortopts,
114 const struct option *longopts, int *longind);
115 extern int getopt_long_only (int argc, char *const *argv,
116 const char *shortopts,
117 const struct option *longopts, int *longind);
119 /* Internal only. Users should not call this directly. */
120 extern int _getopt_internal (int argc, char *const *argv,
121 const char *shortopts,
122 const struct option *longopts, int *longind,
123 int long_only);
124 #else /* not __STDC__ */
125 extern int getopt ();
126 extern int getopt_long ();
127 extern int getopt_long_only ();
129 extern int _getopt_internal ();
130 #endif /* not __STDC__ */
132 #ifdef __cplusplus
134 #endif
136 #endif /* _GETOPT_H */