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20 * ISO C99 Standard: 7.21 String handling <string.h>
23 #ifndef _STRING_H
24 #define _STRING_H 1
26 #include <features.h>
28 __BEGIN_DECLS
30 /* Get size_t and NULL from <stddef.h>. */
31 #define __need_size_t
32 #define __need_NULL
33 #include <stddef.h>
36 /* Copy N bytes of SRC to DEST. */
37 extern void *memcpy (void *__restrict __dest,
38 __const void *__restrict __src, size_t __n) __THROW;
39 /* Copy N bytes of SRC to DEST, guaranteeing
40 correct behavior for overlapping strings. */
41 extern void *memmove (void *__dest, __const void *__src, size_t __n)
42 __THROW;
44 /* Copy no more than N bytes of SRC to DEST, stopping when C is found.
45 Return the position in DEST one byte past where C was copied,
46 or NULL if C was not found in the first N bytes of SRC. */
47 #if defined __USE_SVID || defined __USE_BSD || defined __USE_XOPEN
48 extern void *memccpy (void *__restrict __dest, __const void *__restrict __src,
49 int __c, size_t __n)
50 __THROW;
51 #endif /* SVID. */
54 /* Set N bytes of S to C. */
55 extern void *memset (void *__s, int __c, size_t __n) __THROW;
57 /* Compare N bytes of S1 and S2. */
58 extern int memcmp (__const void *__s1, __const void *__s2, size_t __n)
59 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
61 /* Search N bytes of S for C. */
62 extern void *memchr (__const void *__s, int __c, size_t __n)
63 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
65 #ifdef __USE_GNU
66 /* Search in S for C. This is similar to `memchr' but there is no
67 length limit. */
68 extern void *rawmemchr (__const void *__s, int __c) __THROW __attribute_pure__;
70 /* Search N bytes of S for the final occurrence of C. */
71 extern void *memrchr (__const void *__s, int __c, size_t __n)
72 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
73 #endif
76 /* Copy SRC to DEST. */
77 extern char *strcpy (char *__restrict __dest, __const char *__restrict __src)
78 __THROW;
79 /* Copy no more than N characters of SRC to DEST. */
80 extern char *strncpy (char *__restrict __dest,
81 __const char *__restrict __src, size_t __n) __THROW;
83 /* Append SRC onto DEST. */
84 extern char *strcat (char *__restrict __dest, __const char *__restrict __src)
85 __THROW;
86 /* Append no more than N characters from SRC onto DEST. */
87 extern char *strncat (char *__restrict __dest, __const char *__restrict __src,
88 size_t __n) __THROW;
90 /* Compare S1 and S2. */
91 extern int strcmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2)
92 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
93 /* Compare N characters of S1 and S2. */
94 extern int strncmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2, size_t __n)
95 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
97 /* Compare the collated forms of S1 and S2. */
98 extern int strcoll (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2)
99 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
100 /* Put a transformation of SRC into no more than N bytes of DEST. */
101 extern size_t strxfrm (char *__restrict __dest,
102 __const char *__restrict __src, size_t __n) __THROW;
104 #ifdef __USE_GNU
105 /* The following functions are equivalent to the both above but they
106 take the locale they use for the collation as an extra argument.
107 This is not standardsized but something like will come. */
108 # include <xlocale.h>
110 /* Compare the collated forms of S1 and S2 using rules from L. */
111 extern int __strcoll_l (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2, __locale_t __l)
112 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
113 /* Put a transformation of SRC into no more than N bytes of DEST. */
114 extern size_t __strxfrm_l (char *__dest, __const char *__src, size_t __n,
115 __locale_t __l) __THROW;
116 #endif
118 #if defined __USE_SVID || defined __USE_BSD || defined __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED
119 /* Duplicate S, returning an identical malloc'd string. */
120 extern char *strdup (__const char *__s) __THROW __attribute_malloc__;
121 #endif
123 /* Return a malloc'd copy of at most N bytes of STRING. The
124 resultant string is terminated even if no null terminator
125 appears before STRING[N]. */
126 #if defined __USE_GNU
127 extern char *strndup (__const char *__string, size_t __n)
128 __THROW __attribute_malloc__;
129 #endif
131 #if defined __USE_GNU && defined __GNUC__
132 /* Duplicate S, returning an identical alloca'd string. */
133 # define strdupa(s) \
134 (__extension__ \
135 ({ \
136 __const char *__old = (s); \
137 size_t __len = strlen (__old) + 1; \
138 char *__new = __builtin_alloca (__len); \
139 (char *) memcpy (__new, __old, __len); \
142 /* Return an alloca'd copy of at most N bytes of string. */
143 # define strndupa(s, n) \
144 (__extension__ \
145 ({ \
146 __const char *__old = (s); \
147 size_t __len = strnlen (__old, (n)); \
148 char *__new = __builtin_alloca (__len + 1); \
149 __new[__len] = '\0'; \
150 (char *) memcpy (__new, __old, __len); \
152 #endif
154 /* Find the first occurrence of C in S. */
155 extern char *strchr (__const char *__s, int __c) __THROW __attribute_pure__;
156 /* Find the last occurrence of C in S. */
157 extern char *strrchr (__const char *__s, int __c) __THROW __attribute_pure__;
159 #ifdef __USE_GNU
160 /* This funciton is similar to `strchr'. But it returns a pointer to
161 the closing NUL byte in case C is not found in S. */
162 extern char *strchrnul (__const char *__s, int __c) __THROW __attribute_pure__;
163 #endif
165 /* Return the length of the initial segment of S which
166 consists entirely of characters not in REJECT. */
167 extern size_t strcspn (__const char *__s, __const char *__reject)
168 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
169 /* Return the length of the initial segment of S which
170 consists entirely of characters in ACCEPT. */
171 extern size_t strspn (__const char *__s, __const char *__accept)
172 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
173 /* Find the first occurrence in S of any character in ACCEPT. */
174 extern char *strpbrk (__const char *__s, __const char *__accept)
175 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
176 /* Find the first occurrence of NEEDLE in HAYSTACK. */
177 extern char *strstr (__const char *__haystack, __const char *__needle)
178 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
180 #ifdef __USE_GNU
181 /* Similar to `strstr' but this function ignores the case of both strings. */
182 extern char *strcasestr (__const char *__haystack, __const char *__needle)
183 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
184 #endif
186 /* Divide S into tokens separated by characters in DELIM. */
187 extern char *strtok (char *__restrict __s, __const char *__restrict __delim)
188 __THROW;
190 /* Divide S into tokens separated by characters in DELIM. Information
191 passed between calls are stored in SAVE_PTR. */
192 extern char *__strtok_r (char *__restrict __s,
193 __const char *__restrict __delim,
194 char **__restrict __save_ptr) __THROW;
195 #if defined __USE_POSIX || defined __USE_MISC
196 extern char *strtok_r (char *__restrict __s, __const char *__restrict __delim,
197 char **__restrict __save_ptr) __THROW;
198 #endif
200 #ifdef __USE_GNU
201 /* Find the first occurrence of NEEDLE in HAYSTACK.
202 NEEDLE is NEEDLELEN bytes long;
203 HAYSTACK is HAYSTACKLEN bytes long. */
204 extern void *memmem (__const void *__haystack, size_t __haystacklen,
205 __const void *__needle, size_t __needlelen)
206 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
208 /* Copy N bytes of SRC to DEST, return pointer to bytes after the
209 last written byte. */
210 extern void *__mempcpy (void *__restrict __dest,
211 __const void *__restrict __src, size_t __n) __THROW;
212 extern void *mempcpy (void *__restrict __dest,
213 __const void *__restrict __src, size_t __n) __THROW;
214 #endif
217 /* Return the length of S. */
218 extern size_t strlen (__const char *__s) __THROW __attribute_pure__;
220 #ifdef __USE_GNU
221 /* Find the length of STRING, but scan at most MAXLEN characters.
222 If no '\0' terminator is found in that many characters, return MAXLEN. */
223 extern size_t strnlen (__const char *__string, size_t __maxlen)
224 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
225 #endif
228 /* Return a string describing the meaning of the `errno' code in ERRNUM. */
229 extern char *strerror (int __errnum) __THROW;
230 #ifdef __USE_MISC
231 /* Reentrant version of `strerror'. If a temporary buffer is required, at
232 most BUFLEN bytes of BUF will be used. */
233 extern char *strerror_r (int __errnum, char *__buf, size_t __buflen) __THROW;
234 #endif
236 /* We define this function always since `bzero' is sometimes needed when
237 the namespace rules does not allow this. */
238 extern void __bzero (void *__s, size_t __n) __THROW;
240 #if defined __USE_BSD
241 /* Copy N bytes of SRC to DEST (like memmove, but args reversed). */
242 extern void bcopy (__const void *__src, void *__dest, size_t __n) __THROW;
244 /* Set N bytes of S to 0. */
245 extern void bzero (void *__s, size_t __n) __THROW;
247 /* Compare N bytes of S1 and S2 (same as memcmp). */
248 extern int bcmp (__const void *__s1, __const void *__s2, size_t __n)
249 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
251 /* Find the first occurrence of C in S (same as strchr). */
252 extern char *index (__const char *__s, int __c) __THROW __attribute_pure__;
254 /* Find the last occurrence of C in S (same as strrchr). */
255 extern char *rindex (__const char *__s, int __c) __THROW __attribute_pure__;
257 /* Return the position of the first bit set in I, or 0 if none are set.
258 The least-significant bit is position 1, the most-significant 32. */
259 extern int ffs (int __i) __THROW __attribute__ ((const));
261 /* The following two functions are non-standard but necessary for non-32 bit
262 platforms. */
263 # ifdef __USE_GNU
264 extern int ffsl (long int __l) __THROW __attribute__ ((const));
265 # ifdef __GNUC__
266 __extension__ extern int ffsll (long long int __ll)
267 __THROW __attribute__ ((const));
268 # endif
269 # endif
271 /* Compare S1 and S2, ignoring case. */
272 extern int strcasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2)
273 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
275 /* Compare no more than N chars of S1 and S2, ignoring case. */
276 extern int strncasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2, size_t __n)
277 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
278 #endif /* Use BSD. */
280 #ifdef __USE_GNU
281 /* Again versions of a few functions which use the given locale instead
282 of the global one. */
283 extern int __strcasecmp_l (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2,
284 __locale_t __loc) __THROW __attribute_pure__;
286 extern int __strncasecmp_l (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2,
287 size_t __n, __locale_t __loc)
288 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
289 #endif
291 #ifdef __USE_BSD
292 /* Return the next DELIM-delimited token from *STRINGP,
293 terminating it with a '\0', and update *STRINGP to point past it. */
294 extern char *strsep (char **__restrict __stringp,
295 __const char *__restrict __delim) __THROW;
296 #endif
298 #ifdef __USE_GNU
299 /* Compare S1 and S2 as strings holding name & indices/version numbers. */
300 extern int strverscmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2)
301 __THROW __attribute_pure__;
303 /* Return a string describing the meaning of the signal number in SIG. */
304 extern char *strsignal (int __sig) __THROW;
306 /* Copy SRC to DEST, returning the address of the terminating '\0' in DEST. */
307 extern char *__stpcpy (char *__restrict __dest, __const char *__restrict __src)
308 __THROW;
309 extern char *stpcpy (char *__restrict __dest, __const char *__restrict __src)
310 __THROW;
312 /* Copy no more than N characters of SRC to DEST, returning the address of
313 the last character written into DEST. */
314 extern char *__stpncpy (char *__restrict __dest,
315 __const char *__restrict __src, size_t __n) __THROW;
316 extern char *stpncpy (char *__restrict __dest,
317 __const char *__restrict __src, size_t __n) __THROW;
319 /* Sautee STRING briskly. */
320 extern char *strfry (char *__string) __THROW;
322 /* Frobnicate N bytes of S. */
323 extern void *memfrob (void *__s, size_t __n) __THROW;
325 # ifndef basename
326 /* Return the file name within directory of FILENAME. We don't
327 declare the function if the `basename' macro is available (defined
328 in <libgen.h>) which makes the XPG version of this function
329 available. */
330 extern char *basename (__const char *__filename) __THROW;
331 # endif
332 #endif
335 #if defined __GNUC__ && __GNUC__ >= 2
336 # if defined __OPTIMIZE__ && !defined __OPTIMIZE_SIZE__ && !defined __cplusplus
337 /* When using GNU CC we provide some optimized versions of selected
338 functions from this header. There are two kinds of optimizations:
340 - machine-dependent optimizations, most probably using inline
341 assembler code; these might be quite expensive since the code
342 size can increase significantly.
343 These optimizations are not used unless the symbol
344 __USE_STRING_INLINES
345 is defined before including this header.
347 - machine-independent optimizations which do not increase the
348 code size significantly and which optimize mainly situations
349 where one or more arguments are compile-time constants.
350 These optimizations are used always when the compiler is
351 taught to optimize.
353 One can inhibit all optimizations by defining __NO_STRING_INLINES. */
355 /* Get the machine-dependent optimizations (if any). */
356 # include <bits/string.h>
358 /* These are generic optimizations which do not add too much inline code. */
359 # include <bits/string2.h>
360 # endif
361 #endif
363 __END_DECLS
365 #endif /* string.h */