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1 /* vsprintf with automatic memory allocation.
2 Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
5 under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published
6 by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
12 Library General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
15 License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
16 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
17 USA. */
19 #ifndef _VASNPRINTF_H
20 #define _VASNPRINTF_H
22 /* Get va_list. */
23 #include <stdarg.h>
25 /* Get size_t. */
26 #include <stddef.h>
28 #ifndef __attribute__
29 /* This feature is available in gcc versions 2.5 and later. */
30 # if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 5) || __STRICT_ANSI__
31 # define __attribute__(Spec) /* empty */
32 # endif
33 /* The __-protected variants of `format' and `printf' attributes
34 are accepted by gcc versions 2.6.4 (effectively 2.7) and later. */
35 # if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 7)
36 # define __format__ format
37 # define __printf__ printf
38 # endif
39 #endif
41 #ifdef __cplusplus
42 extern "C" {
43 #endif
45 /* Write formatted output to a string dynamically allocated with malloc().
46 You can pass a preallocated buffer for the result in RESULTBUF and its
47 size in *LENGTHP; otherwise you pass RESULTBUF = NULL.
48 If successful, return the address of the string (this may be = RESULTBUF
49 if no dynamic memory allocation was necessary) and set *LENGTHP to the
50 number of resulting bytes, excluding the trailing NUL. Upon error, set
51 errno and return NULL.
53 When dynamic memory allocation occurs, the preallocated buffer is left
54 alone (with possibly modified contents). This makes it possible to use
55 a statically allocated or stack-allocated buffer, like this:
57 char buf[100];
58 size_t len = sizeof (buf);
59 char *output = vasnprintf (buf, &len, format, args);
60 if (output == NULL)
61 ... error handling ...;
62 else
64 ... use the output string ...;
65 if (output != buf)
66 free (output);
69 extern char * asnprintf (char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, ...)
70 __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 4)));
71 extern char * vasnprintf (char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, va_list args)
72 __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 0)));
74 #ifdef __cplusplus
76 #endif
78 #endif /* _VASNPRINTF_H */