Guess the byte order of old-format locate databases
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1 /* locatedb.h -- declarations for the locate database
2 Copyright (C) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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20 #ifndef _LOCATEDB_H
21 #define _LOCATEDB_H 1
23 #include <stdio.h>
25 /* The magic string at the start of a locate database, to make sure
26 it's in the right format. The 02 is the database format version number.
27 This string has the same format as a database entry, but you can't
28 concatenate databases even if you remove it, since the differential count
29 in the first entry of the second database will be wrong. */
30 #define LOCATEDB_MAGIC "\0LOCATE02"
32 /* Common-prefix length differences in the ranges
33 0..127, -127..-1 (0x00..0x7f, 0x81..0xff) fit into one byte.
34 This value (which is -128) indicates that the difference is
35 too large to fit into one byte, and a two-byte integer follows. */
36 #define LOCATEDB_ESCAPE 0x80
37 #define LOCATEDB_ONEBYTE_MAX (127)
38 #define LOCATEDB_ONEBYTE_MIN (-127)
41 /* If it is ever possible to try to encode LOCATEDB_MAGIC as a
42 * single-byte offset, then an unfortunate length of common prefix
43 * will produce a spurious escape character, desynchronising the data
44 * stream. We use a compile-time check in the preprocessor to prevent
45 * this.
47 #if LOCATEDB_ESCAPE <= LOCATEDB_ONEBYTE_MAX
48 #error "You have a bad combination of LOCATEDB_ESCAPE and LOCATEDB_ONEBYTE_MAX, see above"
49 #endif
51 /* These are used for old, bigram-encoded databases: */
53 /* Means the differential count follows in a 2-byte int instead. */
54 #define LOCATEDB_OLD_ESCAPE 30
56 /* Offset added to differential counts to encode them as positive numbers. */
57 #define LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET 14
59 # ifndef PARAMS
60 # if defined PROTOTYPES || (defined __STDC__ && __STDC__)
61 # define PARAMS(Args) Args
62 # else
63 # define PARAMS(Args) ()
64 # endif
65 # endif
67 typedef enum
69 GetwordEndianStateInitial = 0,
70 GetwordEndianStateNative = 1,
71 GetwordEndianStateSwab = 2
72 } GetwordEndianState;
74 int getword (FILE *fp, const char *filename,
75 size_t minvalue, size_t maxvalue,
76 GetwordEndianState *endian_state_flag);
79 #define SLOCATE_DB_MAGIC_LEN 2
81 #endif /* !_LOCATEDB_H */