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19 #ifndef _PRINTF_H
21 #define _PRINTF_H 1
22 #include <features.h>
24 __BEGIN_DECLS
26 #define __need_FILE
27 #include <stdio.h>
28 #define __need_size_t
29 #define __need_wchar_t
30 #include <stddef.h>
31 #include <stdarg.h>
34 struct printf_info
36 int prec; /* Precision. */
37 int width; /* Width. */
38 wchar_t spec; /* Format letter. */
39 unsigned int is_long_double:1;/* L flag. */
40 unsigned int is_short:1; /* h flag. */
41 unsigned int is_long:1; /* l flag. */
42 unsigned int alt:1; /* # flag. */
43 unsigned int space:1; /* Space flag. */
44 unsigned int left:1; /* - flag. */
45 unsigned int showsign:1; /* + flag. */
46 unsigned int group:1; /* ' flag. */
47 unsigned int extra:1; /* For special use. */
48 unsigned int is_char:1; /* hh flag. */
49 unsigned int wide:1; /* Nonzero for wide character streams. */
50 unsigned int i18n:1; /* I flag. */
51 unsigned int __pad:4; /* Unused so far. */
52 unsigned short int user; /* Bits for user-installed modifiers. */
53 wchar_t pad; /* Padding character. */
57 /* Type of a printf specifier-handler function.
58 STREAM is the FILE on which to write output.
59 INFO gives information about the format specification.
60 ARGS is a vector of pointers to the argument data;
61 the number of pointers will be the number returned
62 by the associated arginfo function for the same INFO.
64 The function should return the number of characters written,
65 or -1 for errors. */
67 typedef int printf_function (FILE *__stream,
68 const struct printf_info *__info,
69 const void *const *__args);
71 /* Type of a printf specifier-arginfo function.
72 INFO gives information about the format specification.
73 N, ARGTYPES, *SIZE has to contain the size of the parameter for
74 user-defined types, and return value are as for parse_printf_format
75 except that -1 should be returned if the handler cannot handle
76 this case. This allows to partially overwrite the functionality
77 of existing format specifiers. */
79 typedef int printf_arginfo_size_function (const struct printf_info *__info,
80 size_t __n, int *__argtypes,
81 int *__size);
83 /* Old version of 'printf_arginfo_function' without a SIZE parameter. */
85 typedef int printf_arginfo_function (const struct printf_info *__info,
86 size_t __n, int *__argtypes);
88 /* Type of a function to get a value of a user-defined from the
89 variable argument list. */
90 typedef void printf_va_arg_function (void *__mem, va_list *__ap);
93 /* Register FUNC to be called to format SPEC specifiers; ARGINFO must be
94 specified to determine how many arguments a SPEC conversion requires and
95 what their types are. */
97 extern int register_printf_specifier (int __spec, printf_function __func,
98 printf_arginfo_size_function __arginfo)
99 __THROW;
102 /* Obsolete interface similar to register_printf_specifier. It can only
103 handle basic data types because the ARGINFO callback does not return
104 information on the size of the user-defined type. */
106 extern int register_printf_function (int __spec, printf_function __func,
107 printf_arginfo_function __arginfo)
108 __THROW __attribute_deprecated__;
111 /* Register a new modifier character sequence. If the call succeeds
112 it returns a positive value representing the bit set in the USER
113 field in 'struct printf_info'. */
115 extern int register_printf_modifier (const wchar_t *__str) __wur __THROW;
118 /* Register variable argument handler for user type. The return value
119 is to be used in ARGINFO functions to signal the use of the
120 type. */
121 extern int register_printf_type (printf_va_arg_function __fct) __wur __THROW;
124 /* Parse FMT, and fill in N elements of ARGTYPES with the
125 types needed for the conversions FMT specifies. Returns
126 the number of arguments required by FMT.
128 The ARGINFO function registered with a user-defined format is passed a
129 `struct printf_info' describing the format spec being parsed. A width
130 or precision of INT_MIN means a `*' was used to indicate that the
131 width/precision will come from an arg. The function should fill in the
132 array it is passed with the types of the arguments it wants, and return
133 the number of arguments it wants. */
135 extern size_t parse_printf_format (const char *__restrict __fmt, size_t __n,
136 int *__restrict __argtypes) __THROW;
139 /* Codes returned by `parse_printf_format' for basic types.
141 These values cover all the standard format specifications.
142 Users can reserve new values after PA_LAST for their own types
143 using 'register_printf_type'. */
145 enum
146 { /* C type: */
147 PA_INT, /* int */
148 PA_CHAR, /* int, cast to char */
149 PA_WCHAR, /* wide char */
150 PA_STRING, /* const char *, a '\0'-terminated string */
151 PA_WSTRING, /* const wchar_t *, wide character string */
152 PA_POINTER, /* void * */
153 PA_FLOAT, /* float */
154 PA_DOUBLE, /* double */
155 PA_LAST
158 /* Flag bits that can be set in a type returned by `parse_printf_format'. */
159 #define PA_FLAG_MASK 0xff00
160 #define PA_FLAG_LONG_LONG (1 << 8)
161 #define PA_FLAG_LONG_DOUBLE PA_FLAG_LONG_LONG
162 #define PA_FLAG_LONG (1 << 9)
163 #define PA_FLAG_SHORT (1 << 10)
164 #define PA_FLAG_PTR (1 << 11)
168 /* Function which can be registered as `printf'-handlers. */
170 /* Print floating point value using using abbreviations for the orders
171 of magnitude used for numbers ('k' for kilo, 'm' for mega etc). If
172 the format specifier is a uppercase character powers of 1000 are
173 used. Otherwise powers of 1024. */
174 extern int printf_size (FILE *__restrict __fp,
175 const struct printf_info *__info,
176 const void *const *__restrict __args) __THROW;
178 /* This is the appropriate argument information function for `printf_size'. */
179 extern int printf_size_info (const struct printf_info *__restrict
180 __info, size_t __n, int *__restrict __argtypes)
181 __THROW;
183 #ifdef __LDBL_COMPAT
184 # include <bits/printf-ldbl.h>
185 #endif
187 __END_DECLS
189 #endif /* printf.h */