1 /* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/mytypes.h,v 1.2 2005/01/04 10:00:42 ph10 Exp $ */
3 /*************************************************
4 * Exim - an Internet mail transport agent *
5 *************************************************/
7 /* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2005 */
8 /* See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. */
11 /* This header file contains type definitions and macros that I use as
12 "standard" in the code of Exim and its utilities. Make it idempotent because
13 local_scan.h includes it and exim.h includes them both (to get this earlier). */
24 /* If gcc is being used to compile Exim, we can use its facility for checking
25 the arguments of printf-like functions. This is done by a macro. */
28 #define PRINTF_FUNCTION __attribute__((format(printf,1,2)))
30 #define PRINTF_FUNCTION
34 /* Some operating systems (naughtily, imo) include a definition for "uchar" in
35 the standard header files, so we use "uschar". Solaris has u_char in
36 sys/types.h. This is just a typing convenience, of course. */
39 typedef unsigned char uschar;
42 /* These macros save typing for the casting that is needed to cope with the
43 mess that is "char" in ISO/ANSI C. Having now been bitten enough times by
44 systems where "char" is actually signed, I've converted Exim to use entirely
45 unsigned chars, except in a few special places such as arguments that are
46 almost always literal strings. */
49 #define CCS (const char *)
51 #define US (unsigned char *)
52 #define CUS (const unsigned char *)
53 #define USS (unsigned char **)
55 /* The C library string functions expect "char *" arguments. Use macros to
56 avoid having to write a cast each time. We do this for string and file
57 functions that are called quite often; for other calls to external libraries
58 (which are on the whole special-purpose) we just use individual casts. */
60 #define Uatoi(s) atoi(CCS(s))
61 #define Uatol(s) atol(CCS(s))
62 #define Uchdir(s) chdir(CCS(s))
63 #define Uchmod(s,n) chmod(CCS(s),n)
64 #define Uchown(s,n,m) chown(CCS(s),n,m)
65 #define Ufgets(b,n,f) fgets(CS(b),n,f)
66 #define Ufopen(s,t) fopen(CCS(s),CCS(t))
67 #define Ulink(s,t) link(CCS(s),CCS(t))
68 #define Ulstat(s,t) lstat(CCS(s),t)
70 #ifdef O_BINARY /* This is for Cygwin, */
71 #define Uopen(s,n,m) open(CCS(s),(n)|O_BINARY,m) /* where all files must */
72 #else /* be opened as binary */
73 #define Uopen(s,n,m) open(CCS(s),n,m) /* to avoid problems */
74 #endif /* with CRLF endings. */
75 #define Uread(f,b,l) read(f,CS(b),l)
76 #define Urename(s,t) rename(CCS(s),CCS(t))
77 #define Ustat(s,t) stat(CCS(s),t)
78 #define Ustrcat(s,t) strcat(CS(s),CCS(t))
79 #define Ustrchr(s,n) US strchr(CCS(s),n)
80 #define CUstrchr(s,n) CUS strchr(CCS(s),n)
81 #define CUstrerror(n) CUS strerror(n)
82 #define Ustrcmp(s,t) strcmp(CCS(s),CCS(t))
83 #define Ustrcpy(s,t) strcpy(CS(s),CCS(t))
84 #define Ustrcspn(s,t) strcspn(CCS(s),CCS(t))
85 #define Ustrftime(s,m,f,t) strftime(CS(s),m,f,t)
86 #define Ustrlen(s) (int)strlen(CCS(s))
87 #define Ustrncat(s,t,n) strncat(CS(s),CCS(t),n)
88 #define Ustrncmp(s,t,n) strncmp(CCS(s),CCS(t),n)
89 #define Ustrncpy(s,t,n) strncpy(CS(s),CCS(t),n)
90 #define Ustrpbrk(s,t) strpbrk(CCS(s),CCS(t))
91 #define Ustrrchr(s,n) US strrchr(CCS(s),n)
92 #define CUstrrchr(s,n) CUS strrchr(CCS(s),n)
93 #define Ustrspn(s,t) strspn(CCS(s),CCS(t))
94 #define Ustrstr(s,t) US strstr(CCS(s),CCS(t))
95 #define CUstrstr(s,t) CUS strstr(CCS(s),CCS(t))
96 #define Ustrtod(s,t) strtod(CCS(s),CSS(t))
97 #define Ustrtol(s,t,b) strtol(CCS(s),CSS(t),b)
98 #define Ustrtoul(s,t,b) strtoul(CCS(s),CSS(t),b)
99 #define Uunlink(s) unlink(CCS(s))
102 /* End of mytypes.h */