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1 /* Declarations for getopt.
2 Copyright (C) 1989,90,91,92,93,94,96,97,98 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
7 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
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11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
17 write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
18 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
20 #ifndef _GETOPT_H
21 #define _GETOPT_H 1
23 #ifdef __cplusplus
24 extern "C" {
25 #endif
27 /* For communication from `getopt' to the caller.
28 When `getopt' finds an option that takes an argument,
29 the argument value is returned here.
30 Also, when `ordering' is RETURN_IN_ORDER,
31 each non-option ARGV-element is returned here. */
33 extern char *optarg;
35 /* Index in ARGV of the next element to be scanned.
36 This is used for communication to and from the caller
37 and for communication between successive calls to `getopt'.
39 On entry to `getopt', zero means this is the first call; initialize.
41 When `getopt' returns -1, this is the index of the first of the
42 non-option elements that the caller should itself scan.
44 Otherwise, `optind' communicates from one call to the next
45 how much of ARGV has been scanned so far. */
47 extern int optind;
49 /* Callers store zero here to inhibit the error message `getopt' prints
50 for unrecognized options. */
52 extern int opterr;
54 /* Set to an option character which was unrecognized. */
56 extern int optopt;
58 #ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
59 /* Describe the long-named options requested by the application.
60 The LONG_OPTIONS argument to getopt_long or getopt_long_only is a vector
61 of `struct option' terminated by an element containing a name which is
62 zero.
64 The field `has_arg' is:
65 no_argument (or 0) if the option does not take an argument,
66 required_argument (or 1) if the option requires an argument,
67 optional_argument (or 2) if the option takes an optional argument.
69 If the field `flag' is not NULL, it points to a variable that is set
70 to the value given in the field `val' when the option is found, but
71 left unchanged if the option is not found.
73 To have a long-named option do something other than set an `int' to
74 a compiled-in constant, such as set a value from `optarg', set the
75 option's `flag' field to zero and its `val' field to a nonzero
76 value (the equivalent single-letter option character, if there is
77 one). For long options that have a zero `flag' field, `getopt'
78 returns the contents of the `val' field. */
80 struct option
82 # if defined __STDC__ && __STDC__
83 const char *name;
84 # else
85 char *name;
86 # endif
87 /* has_arg can't be an enum because some compilers complain about
88 type mismatches in all the code that assumes it is an int. */
89 int has_arg;
90 int *flag;
91 int val;
94 /* Names for the values of the `has_arg' field of `struct option'. */
96 # define no_argument 0
97 # define required_argument 1
98 # define optional_argument 2
99 #endif /* GNU source */
102 #if defined __STDC__ && __STDC__
103 # ifdef __GNU_LIBRARY__
104 /* Many other libraries have conflicting prototypes for getopt, with
105 differences in the consts, in stdlib.h. To avoid compilation
106 errors, only prototype getopt for the GNU C library. */
107 extern int getopt (int argc, char *const *argv, const char *shortopts);
108 # else /* not __GNU_LIBRARY__ */
109 extern int getopt ();
110 # endif /* __GNU_LIBRARY__ */
112 # ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
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 # endif
125 #else /* not __STDC__ */
126 extern int getopt ();
127 # ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
128 extern int getopt_long ();
129 extern int getopt_long_only ();
131 extern int _getopt_internal ();
132 # endif
133 #endif /* __STDC__ */
135 #ifdef __cplusplus
137 #endif
139 #endif /* getopt.h */