Fixes for Windows/ICC--typecasting
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36 #ifndef _futil_h
37 #define _futil_h
39 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
40 #include <config.h>
41 #endif
43 #include <stdio.h>
44 #include "typedefs.h"
46 #ifdef __cplusplus
47 extern "C" {
48 #endif
50 /* Native windows uses backslash path separators.
51 * Cygwin and everybody else in the world use slash.
52 * When reading the PATH environment variable, Unix separates entries
53 * with colon, while windows uses semicolon.
55 #if ((defined WIN32 || defined _WIN32 || defined WIN64 || defined _WIN64) && !defined __CYGWIN__ && !defined __CYGWIN32__)
56 #define DIR_SEPARATOR '\\'
57 #define PATH_SEPARATOR ";"
58 #else
59 #define DIR_SEPARATOR '/'
60 #define PATH_SEPARATOR ":"
61 #endif
64 /* Now get the maximum path size. */
65 #ifdef PATH_MAX
66 #define GMX_PATH_MAX PATH_MAX
67 #else
68 #ifdef MAX_PATH
69 #define GMX_PATH_MAX MAX_PATH
70 #else
71 #define GMX_PATH_MAX 4096
72 #endif
73 #endif
76 extern void no_buffers(void);
77 /* Turn off buffering of files (which is default) for debugging purposes */
79 extern bool gmx_fexist(const char *fname);
80 /* Return TRUE when fname exists, FALSE otherwise */
82 bool gmx_fexist_master(const char *fname, t_commrec *cr);
83 /* Return TRUE when fname exists, FALSE otherwise, bcast from master to others */
85 extern bool gmx_eof(FILE *fp);
86 /* Return TRUE on end-of-file, FALSE otherwise */
88 extern bool is_pipe(FILE *fp);
89 /* Check whether the file (opened by ffopen) is a pipe */
91 extern char *backup_fn(const char *file);
92 /* Return a backup name for file (name with # before and after) */
94 /* Make a backup of file if necessary.
95 Return false if there was a problem.
97 extern bool make_backup(const char * file);
99 extern FILE *ffopen(const char *file, const char *mode);
100 /* Return a valid file pointer when succesfull, exits otherwise
101 * If the file is in compressed format, open a pipe which uncompresses
102 * the file! Therefore, files must be closed with ffclose (see below)
105 extern int ffclose(FILE *fp);
106 /* Close files or pipes */
109 extern void frewind(FILE *fp);
110 /* Does not rewind pipes, but does so for normal files */
112 #define rewind frewind
114 bool is_pipe(FILE *fp);
116 extern char *gmxlibfn(const char *file);
117 /* allocates and returns a string with the full file name for a library file */
119 extern FILE *libopen(const char *file);
120 /* Open a library file for reading. This looks in the current directory
121 * first, and then in the library directory. If the file is not found,
122 * it terminates with a fatal_error
125 extern bool get_libdir(char *libdir);
127 extern char *low_gmxlibfn(const char *file,bool bFatal);
129 extern FILE *low_libopen(const char *file,bool bFatal);
130 /* The same as the above, but does not terminate if (!bFatal) */
132 /* Create unique name for temp file (wrapper around mkstemp).
133 * Buf should be at least 7 bytes long
135 extern void gmx_tmpnam(char *buf);
138 gmx_truncatefile(char *path, off_t length);
140 #ifdef __cplusplus
142 #endif
144 #endif /* _futil_h */