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Go to the documentation of this file.00001 /* Declarations for getopt. 00002 Copyright (C) 1989,90,91,92,93,94,96,97,98 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 00003 This file is part of the GNU C Library. 00004 00005 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 00006 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as 00007 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 00008 License, or (at your option) any later version. 00009 00010 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 00011 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 00012 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 00013 Library General Public License for more details. 00014 00015 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public 00016 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, 00017 write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, 00018 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ 00019 00020 #ifndef _GETOPT_H 00021 00022 #ifndef __need_getopt 00023 # define _GETOPT_H 1 00024 #endif 00025 00026 #ifdef __cplusplus 00027 extern "C" { 00028 #endif 00029 00030 /* For communication from `getopt' to the caller. 00031 When `getopt' finds an option that takes an argument, 00032 the argument value is returned here. 00033 Also, when `ordering' is RETURN_IN_ORDER, 00034 each non-option ARGV-element is returned here. */ 00035 00036 extern char *optarg; 00037 00038 /* Index in ARGV of the next element to be scanned. 00039 This is used for communication to and from the caller 00040 and for communication between successive calls to `getopt'. 00041 00042 On entry to `getopt', zero means this is the first call; initialize. 00043 00044 When `getopt' returns -1, this is the index of the first of the 00045 non-option elements that the caller should itself scan. 00046 00047 Otherwise, `optind' communicates from one call to the next 00048 how much of ARGV has been scanned so far. */ 00049 00050 extern int optind; 00051 00052 /* Callers store zero here to inhibit the error message `getopt' prints 00053 for unrecognized options. */ 00054 00055 extern int opterr; 00056 00057 /* Set to an option character which was unrecognized. */ 00058 00059 extern int optopt; 00060 00061 #ifndef __need_getopt 00062 /* Describe the long-named options requested by the application. 00063 The LONG_OPTIONS argument to getopt_long or getopt_long_only is a vector 00064 of `struct option' terminated by an element containing a name which is 00065 zero. 00066 00067 The field `has_arg' is: 00068 no_argument (or 0) if the option does not take an argument, 00069 required_argument (or 1) if the option requires an argument, 00070 optional_argument (or 2) if the option takes an optional argument. 00071 00072 If the field `flag' is not NULL, it points to a variable that is set 00073 to the value given in the field `val' when the option is found, but 00074 left unchanged if the option is not found. 00075 00076 To have a long-named option do something other than set an `int' to 00077 a compiled-in constant, such as set a value from `optarg', set the 00078 option's `flag' field to zero and its `val' field to a nonzero 00079 value (the equivalent single-letter option character, if there is 00080 one). For long options that have a zero `flag' field, `getopt' 00081 returns the contents of the `val' field. */ 00082 00083 struct option 00084 { 00085 # if defined __STDC__ && __STDC__ 00086 const char *name; 00087 # else 00088 char *name; 00089 # endif 00090 /* has_arg can't be an enum because some compilers complain about 00091 type mismatches in all the code that assumes it is an int. */ 00092 int has_arg; 00093 int *flag; 00094 int val; 00095 }; 00096 00097 /* Names for the values of the `has_arg' field of `struct option'. */ 00098 00099 # define no_argument 0 00100 # define required_argument 1 00101 # define optional_argument 2 00102 #endif /* need getopt */ 00103 00104 00105 /* Get definitions and prototypes for functions to process the 00106 arguments in ARGV (ARGC of them, minus the program name) for 00107 options given in OPTS. 00108 00109 Return the option character from OPTS just read. Return -1 when 00110 there are no more options. For unrecognized options, or options 00111 missing arguments, `optopt' is set to the option letter, and '?' is 00112 returned. 00113 00114 The OPTS string is a list of characters which are recognized option 00115 letters, optionally followed by colons, specifying that that letter 00116 takes an argument, to be placed in `optarg'. 00117 00118 If a letter in OPTS is followed by two colons, its argument is 00119 optional. This behavior is specific to the GNU `getopt'. 00120 00121 The argument `--' causes premature termination of argument 00122 scanning, explicitly telling `getopt' that there are no more 00123 options. 00124 00125 If OPTS begins with `--', then non-option arguments are treated as 00126 arguments to the option '\0'. This behavior is specific to the GNU 00127 `getopt'. */ 00128 00129 #if defined __STDC__ && __STDC__ 00130 # ifdef __GNU_LIBRARY__ 00131 /* Many other libraries have conflicting prototypes for getopt, with 00132 differences in the consts, in stdlib.h. To avoid compilation 00133 errors, only prototype getopt for the GNU C library. */ 00134 extern int getopt (int __argc, char *const *__argv, const char *__shortopts); 00135 # else /* not __GNU_LIBRARY__ */ 00136 extern int getopt (); 00137 # endif /* __GNU_LIBRARY__ */ 00138 00139 # ifndef __need_getopt 00140 extern int getopt_long (int __argc, char *const *__argv, const char *__shortopts, 00141 const struct option *__longopts, int *__longind); 00142 extern int getopt_long_only (int __argc, char *const *__argv, 00143 const char *__shortopts, 00144 const struct option *__longopts, int *__longind); 00145 00146 /* Internal only. Users should not call this directly. */ 00147 extern int _getopt_internal (int __argc, char *const *__argv, 00148 const char *__shortopts, 00149 const struct option *__longopts, int *__longind, 00150 int __long_only); 00151 # endif 00152 #else /* not __STDC__ */ 00153 extern int getopt (); 00154 # ifndef __need_getopt 00155 extern int getopt_long (); 00156 extern int getopt_long_only (); 00157 00158 extern int _getopt_internal (); 00159 # endif 00160 #endif /* __STDC__ */ 00161 00162 #ifdef __cplusplus 00163 } 00164 #endif 00165 00166 /* Make sure we later can get all the definitions and declarations. */ 00167 #undef __need_getopt 00168 00169 #endif /* getopt.h */