add better comments

add fmt_copybytes
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leitner 11 years ago
parent 50b45b0f8d
commit a451325318

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fmt.h

@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
#include <stdint.h>
/* for time_t: */
#include <sys/types.h>
/* for byte_copy */
#include "byte.h"
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
@ -19,27 +21,51 @@ extern "C" {
#define FMT_XLONG 33 /* enough space to hold 2^128 - 1 in hexadecimal, plus \0 */
#define FMT_LEN ((char *) 0) /* convenient abbreviation */
/* The formatting routines do not append \0!
* Use them like this: buf[fmt_ulong(buf,number)]=0; */
/* convert signed src integer -23 to ASCII '-','2','3', return length.
/* This file declares routines for formatting strings and numbers in
* various forms or encodings, either binary or text based.
*
* The first argument is always the destination buffer, the second
* argument is always the value to be formatted/encoded. The return
* value is always the number of bytes written in the output buffer.
*
* If you don't know how large the output will be, call the function
* first with NULL as destination buffer and use the length it returns
* to allocate the destination buffer.
*
* Note that none of these routines append a 0 terminator. If you need
* 0 termination, call the functions like this:
buf[fmt_ulong(buf,number)]=0;
*/
/* convert signed src integer -23 to ASCII '-','2','3', return number of
* bytes of value in output format (3 in this example).
* If dest is not NULL, write result to dest */
size_t fmt_long(char *dest,signed long src);
/* convert unsigned src integer 23 to ASCII '2','3', return length.
/* convert unsigned src integer 23 to ASCII '2','3', return number of
* bytes of value in output format (2 in this example).
* If dest is not NULL, write result to dest */
size_t fmt_ulong(char *dest,unsigned long src);
/* convert unsigned src integer 0x23 to ASCII '2','3', return length.
/* convert unsigned src integer 0x23 to ASCII '2','3', return number of
* bytes of value in output format (2 in this example).
* If dest is not NULL, write result to dest */
size_t fmt_xlong(char *dest,unsigned long src);
/* convert unsigned src integer 023 to ASCII '2','3', return length.
/* convert unsigned src integer 023 to ASCII '2','3', return number of
* bytes of value in output format (2 in this example).
* If dest is not NULL, write result to dest */
size_t fmt_8long(char *dest,unsigned long src);
/* like fmt_long but for long long */
size_t fmt_longlong(char *dest,signed long long src);
/* like fmt_ulong but for unsigned long long */
size_t fmt_ulonglong(char *dest,unsigned long long src);
/* like fmt_xlong but for unsigned long long */
size_t fmt_xlonglong(char *dest,unsigned long long src);
#define fmt_uint(dest,src) fmt_ulong(dest,src)
@ -49,6 +75,8 @@ size_t fmt_xlonglong(char *dest,unsigned long long src);
/* Like fmt_ulong, but prepend '0' while length is smaller than padto.
* Does not truncate! */
/* fmt_ulong0(buf,23,4) -> '0','0','2','3' return 4 */
/* fmt_ulong0(buf,234,2) -> '2','3','4', return 3 */
size_t fmt_ulong0(char *,unsigned long src,size_t padto);
#define fmt_uint0(buf,src,padto) fmt_ulong0(buf,src,padto)
@ -67,12 +95,27 @@ size_t fmt_plusminus(char *dest,int src);
size_t fmt_minus(char *dest,int src);
/* copy str to dest until \0 byte, return number of copied bytes. */
/* fmt_str(NULL,str) == strlen(str) */
/* fmt_str(buf,str) == strcpy(buf,str), return strlen(str) */
/* strcat(strcpy(buf,"foo"),"bar") can be written as
* i=fmt_str(buf,"foo");
* i+=fmt_str(buf+i,"bar");
* buf[i]=0;
* This is more efficient because strcat needs to scan the string to
* find the end and append.
*/
size_t fmt_str(char *dest,const char *src);
/* copy str to dest until \0 byte or limit bytes copied.
* return number of copied bytes. */
size_t fmt_strn(char *dest,const char *src,size_t limit);
/* copy n bytes from src to dest, return n */
static inline size_t fmt_copybytes(char* dest,const char* src,size_t n) {
byte_copy(dest,n,src);
return n;
}
/* "foo" -> " foo"
* write padlen-srclen spaces, if that is >= 0. Then copy srclen
* characters from src. Truncate only if total length is larger than
@ -102,6 +145,13 @@ size_t fmt_utf8(char* dest,uint32_t n); /* can store 0-0x7fffffff */
size_t fmt_asn1derlength(char* dest,unsigned long long l); /* 0-0x7f: 1 byte, above that 1+bytes_needed bytes */
size_t fmt_asn1dertag(char* dest,unsigned long long l); /* 1 byte for each 7 bits; upper bit = more bytes coming */
/* '&' -> '&amp;', '<' -> '&lt;'
* 0 is rejected
* control characters except \t \r \n are written in escaped form
* characters from d780 to dfff and fffe and ffff and everything above 10ffff are also rejected.
* everything else is passed through encoded as UTF-8 */
size_t fmt_xmlescape(char* dest,uint32_t ch);
/* internal functions, may be independently useful */
char fmt_tohex(char c);

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