/* PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see . */
#ifndef LIBPSPP_CAST_H
#define LIBPSPP_CAST_H 1
#include
#include "gl/verify.h"
/* Expands to a void expression that checks that POINTER is an
expression whose type is a qualified or unqualified version of
a type compatible with TYPE (a pointer type) and, if not,
causes a compiler warning to be issued (on typical compilers).
Examples:
int *ip;
const int *cip;
const int **cipp;
int ***ippp;
double *dp;
// None of these causes a warning:
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ip, int *);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ip, const int *);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (cip, int *);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (cip, const int *);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (dp, double *);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (dp, const double *);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (cipp, const int **);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (cipp, const int *const *);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ippp, int ***);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ippp, int **const *);
// None of these causes a warning either, although it is unusual to
// const-qualify a pointer like this (it's like declaring a "const int",
// for example).
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ip, int *const);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ip, const int *const);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (cip, int *const);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (cip, const int *const);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (cipp, const int **const);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (cipp, const int *const *const);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ippp, int ***const);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ippp, int **const *const);
// Provokes a warning because "int" is not compatible with "double":
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (dp, int *);
// Provoke warnings because C's type compatibility rules only allow
// adding a "const" qualifier to the outermost pointer:
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ippp, const int ***);
CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (ippp, int *const**);
*/
#define CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE(POINTER, TYPE) \
((void) sizeof ((TYPE) (POINTER) == (POINTER)))
/* Given expressions A and B, both of which have pointer type,
expands to a void expression that causes a compiler warning if
A and B are not pointers to qualified or unqualified versions
of compatible types.
Examples similar to those given for CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE,
above, can easily be devised. */
#define CHECK_POINTER_COMPATIBILITY(A, B) ((void) sizeof ((A) == (B)))
/* Equivalent to casting POINTER to TYPE, but also issues a
warning if the cast changes anything other than an outermost
"const" or "volatile" qualifier. */
#define CONST_CAST(TYPE, POINTER) \
(CHECK_POINTER_HAS_TYPE (POINTER, TYPE), \
(TYPE) (POINTER))
/* Casts POINTER to TYPE. Yields a compiler diagnostic if either TYPE or
POINTER is not a pointer to character type.
PSPP uses "unsigned char" (actually uint8_t) in "union value" and "char"
elsewhere to emphasize that data in union value usually requires reencoding
when transferred to and from other string types. These macros suppress the
warning when implicitly converting between pointers to different character
types, so their use normally marks a bug that should eventually be fixed.
However, until these bugs are fixed, suppressing the warnings is much less
annoying.
Use CHAR_CAST_BUG if you think there is a bug to be fixed, or if you have
not yet carefully examined the situation, or if you are not sure.
Use CHAR_CAST if you are convinced that this is actually a correct cast. */
#define CHAR_CAST(TYPE, POINTER) \
((void) verify_expr (sizeof (*(POINTER)) == 1, 1), \
(void) (sizeof (*(POINTER) + 1)), \
(void) verify_expr (sizeof (*(TYPE) NULL) == 1, 1), \
(void) (sizeof (*(TYPE) NULL + 1)), \
(TYPE) (POINTER))
#define CHAR_CAST_BUG(TYPE, POINTER) CHAR_CAST(TYPE, POINTER)
/* Given POINTER, a pointer to the given MEMBER within structure
STRUCT, returns the address of the STRUCT. */
#define UP_CAST(POINTER, STRUCT, MEMBER) \
(CHECK_POINTER_COMPATIBILITY (&((STRUCT *) 0)->MEMBER, POINTER), \
(STRUCT *) ((char *) (POINTER) - offsetof (STRUCT, MEMBER)))
/* A null pointer constant suitable for use in a varargs parameter list.
This is useful because a literal 0 may not have the same width as a null
pointer. NULL by itself is also insufficient because in C it may expand to
simply 0. */
#define NULL_SENTINEL ((void *) NULL)
#endif /* libpspp/cast.h */