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printf Extension ExampleHere is an example showing how to define a printf handler function.
This program defines a data structure called a Widget and
defines the ‘%W’ conversion to print information about Widget *
arguments, including the pointer value and the name stored in the data
structure. The ‘%W’ conversion supports the minimum field width and
left-justification options, but ignores everything else.
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <printf.h>
typedef struct
{
char *name;
}
Widget;
int
print_widget (FILE *stream,
const struct printf_info *info,
const void *const *args)
{
const Widget *w;
char *buffer;
int len;
/* Format the output into a string. */
w = *((const Widget **) (args[0]));
len = asprintf (&buffer, "<Widget %p: %s>", w, w->name);
if (len == -1)
return -1;
/* Pad to the minimum field width and print to the stream. */
len = fprintf (stream, "%*s",
(info->left ? -info->width : info->width),
buffer);
/* Clean up and return. */
free (buffer);
return len;
}
int
print_widget_arginfo (const struct printf_info *info, size_t n,
int *argtypes)
{
/* We always take exactly one argument and this is a pointer to the
structure.. */
if (n > 0)
argtypes[0] = PA_POINTER;
return 1;
}
int
main (void)
{
/* Make a widget to print. */
Widget mywidget;
mywidget.name = "mywidget";
/* Register the print function for widgets. */
register_printf_function ('W', print_widget, print_widget_arginfo);
/* Now print the widget. */
printf ("|%W|\n", &mywidget);
printf ("|%35W|\n", &mywidget);
printf ("|%-35W|\n", &mywidget);
return 0;
}
The output produced by this program looks like:
|<Widget 0xffeffb7c: mywidget>| | <Widget 0xffeffb7c: mywidget>| |<Widget 0xffeffb7c: mywidget> |