blob: d0369dc35a33f600d4d30164feee66341930690f [file] [log] [blame]
/*
buffer.h
Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
All rights reserved
Created: Sat Mar 18 04:12:25 1995 ylo
Code for manipulating FIFO buffers.
*/
/* RCSID("$Id: buffer.h,v 1.1 1999/10/27 03:42:43 damien Exp $"); */
#ifndef BUFFER_H
#define BUFFER_H
typedef struct
{
char *buf; /* Buffer for data. */
unsigned int alloc; /* Number of bytes allocated for data. */
unsigned int offset; /* Offset of first byte containing data. */
unsigned int end; /* Offset of last byte containing data. */
} Buffer;
/* Initializes the buffer structure. */
void buffer_init(Buffer *buffer);
/* Frees any memory used for the buffer. */
void buffer_free(Buffer *buffer);
/* Clears any data from the buffer, making it empty. This does not actually
zero the memory. */
void buffer_clear(Buffer *buffer);
/* Appends data to the buffer, expanding it if necessary. */
void buffer_append(Buffer *buffer, const char *data, unsigned int len);
/* Appends space to the buffer, expanding the buffer if necessary.
This does not actually copy the data into the buffer, but instead
returns a pointer to the allocated region. */
void buffer_append_space(Buffer *buffer, char **datap, unsigned int len);
/* Returns the number of bytes of data in the buffer. */
unsigned int buffer_len(Buffer *buffer);
/* Gets data from the beginning of the buffer. */
void buffer_get(Buffer *buffer, char *buf, unsigned int len);
/* Consumes the given number of bytes from the beginning of the buffer. */
void buffer_consume(Buffer *buffer, unsigned int bytes);
/* Consumes the given number of bytes from the end of the buffer. */
void buffer_consume_end(Buffer *buffer, unsigned int bytes);
/* Returns a pointer to the first used byte in the buffer. */
char *buffer_ptr(Buffer *buffer);
/* Dumps the contents of the buffer to stderr in hex. This intended for
debugging purposes only. */
void buffer_dump(Buffer *buffer);
#endif /* BUFFER_H */