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1 /* Declarations for getopt.
2 Copyright (C) 1989-2015 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 Lesser General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Lesser General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
17 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19 #ifndef _GETOPT_H
21 #ifndef __need_getopt
22 # define _GETOPT_H 1
23 #endif
25 /* If __GNU_LIBRARY__ is not already defined, either we are being used
26 standalone, or this is the first header included in the source file.
27 If we are being used with glibc, we need to include <features.h>, but
28 that does not exist if we are standalone. So: if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is
29 not defined, include <ctype.h>, which will pull in <features.h> for us
30 if it's from glibc. (Why ctype.h? It's guaranteed to exist and it
31 doesn't flood the namespace with stuff the way some other headers do.) */
32 #if !defined __GNU_LIBRARY__
33 # include <ctype.h>
34 #endif
36 #ifndef __THROW
37 # ifndef __GNUC_PREREQ
38 # define __GNUC_PREREQ(maj, min) (0)
39 # endif
40 # if defined __cplusplus && __GNUC_PREREQ (2,8)
41 # define __THROW throw ()
42 # else
43 # define __THROW
44 # endif
45 #endif
47 #ifdef __cplusplus
48 extern "C" {
49 #endif
51 /* For communication from `getopt' to the caller.
52 When `getopt' finds an option that takes an argument,
53 the argument value is returned here.
54 Also, when `ordering' is RETURN_IN_ORDER,
55 each non-option ARGV-element is returned here. */
57 extern char *optarg;
59 /* Index in ARGV of the next element to be scanned.
60 This is used for communication to and from the caller
61 and for communication between successive calls to `getopt'.
63 On entry to `getopt', zero means this is the first call; initialize.
65 When `getopt' returns -1, this is the index of the first of the
66 non-option elements that the caller should itself scan.
68 Otherwise, `optind' communicates from one call to the next
69 how much of ARGV has been scanned so far. */
71 extern int optind;
73 /* Callers store zero here to inhibit the error message `getopt' prints
74 for unrecognized options. */
76 extern int opterr;
78 /* Set to an option character which was unrecognized. */
80 extern int optopt;
82 #ifndef __need_getopt
83 /* Describe the long-named options requested by the application.
84 The LONG_OPTIONS argument to getopt_long or getopt_long_only is a vector
85 of `struct option' terminated by an element containing a name which is
86 zero.
88 The field `has_arg' is:
89 no_argument (or 0) if the option does not take an argument,
90 required_argument (or 1) if the option requires an argument,
91 optional_argument (or 2) if the option takes an optional argument.
93 If the field `flag' is not NULL, it points to a variable that is set
94 to the value given in the field `val' when the option is found, but
95 left unchanged if the option is not found.
97 To have a long-named option do something other than set an `int' to
98 a compiled-in constant, such as set a value from `optarg', set the
99 option's `flag' field to zero and its `val' field to a nonzero
100 value (the equivalent single-letter option character, if there is
101 one). For long options that have a zero `flag' field, `getopt'
102 returns the contents of the `val' field. */
104 struct option
106 const char *name;
107 /* has_arg can't be an enum because some compilers complain about
108 type mismatches in all the code that assumes it is an int. */
109 int has_arg;
110 int *flag;
111 int val;
114 /* Names for the values of the `has_arg' field of `struct option'. */
116 # define no_argument 0
117 # define required_argument 1
118 # define optional_argument 2
119 #endif /* need getopt */
122 /* Get definitions and prototypes for functions to process the
123 arguments in ARGV (ARGC of them, minus the program name) for
124 options given in OPTS.
126 Return the option character from OPTS just read. Return -1 when
127 there are no more options. For unrecognized options, or options
128 missing arguments, `optopt' is set to the option letter, and '?' is
129 returned.
131 The OPTS string is a list of characters which are recognized option
132 letters, optionally followed by colons, specifying that that letter
133 takes an argument, to be placed in `optarg'.
135 If a letter in OPTS is followed by two colons, its argument is
136 optional. This behavior is specific to the GNU `getopt'.
138 The argument `--' causes premature termination of argument
139 scanning, explicitly telling `getopt' that there are no more
140 options.
142 If OPTS begins with `--', then non-option arguments are treated as
143 arguments to the option '\0'. This behavior is specific to the GNU
144 `getopt'. */
146 #ifdef __GNU_LIBRARY__
147 /* Many other libraries have conflicting prototypes for getopt, with
148 differences in the consts, in stdlib.h. To avoid compilation
149 errors, only prototype getopt for the GNU C library. */
150 extern int getopt (int ___argc, char *const *___argv, const char *__shortopts)
151 __THROW;
153 # if defined __need_getopt && defined __USE_POSIX2 \
154 && !defined __USE_POSIX_IMPLICITLY && !defined __USE_GNU
155 /* The GNU getopt has more functionality than the standard version. The
156 additional functionality can be disable at runtime. This redirection
157 helps to also do this at runtime. */
158 # ifdef __REDIRECT
159 extern int __REDIRECT_NTH (getopt, (int ___argc, char *const *___argv,
160 const char *__shortopts),
161 __posix_getopt);
162 # else
163 extern int __posix_getopt (int ___argc, char *const *___argv,
164 const char *__shortopts) __THROW;
165 # define getopt __posix_getopt
166 # endif
167 # endif
168 #else /* not __GNU_LIBRARY__ */
169 extern int getopt ();
170 #endif /* __GNU_LIBRARY__ */
172 #ifndef __need_getopt
173 extern int getopt_long (int ___argc, char *const *___argv,
174 const char *__shortopts,
175 const struct option *__longopts, int *__longind)
176 __THROW;
177 extern int getopt_long_only (int ___argc, char *const *___argv,
178 const char *__shortopts,
179 const struct option *__longopts, int *__longind)
180 __THROW;
182 #endif
184 #ifdef __cplusplus
186 #endif
188 /* Make sure we later can get all the definitions and declarations. */
189 #undef __need_getopt
191 #endif /* getopt.h */