getopt.h

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/* Declarations for getopt.
   Copyright (C) 1989,90,91,92,93,94,96,97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

NOTE: The canonical source of this file is maintained with the GNU C Library.
Bugs can be reported to bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu.

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under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
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#ifndef _GETOPT_H
#define _GETOPT_H 1

#ifdef  __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/* For communication from `getopt' to the caller.
   When `getopt' finds an option that takes an argument,
   the argument value is returned here.
   Also, when `ordering' is RETURN_IN_ORDER,
   each non-option ARGV-element is returned here.  */

extern char *optarg;

/* Index in ARGV of the next element to be scanned.
   This is used for communication to and from the caller
   and for communication between successive calls to `getopt'.

   On entry to `getopt', zero means this is the first call; initialize.

   When `getopt' returns -1, this is the index of the first of the
   non-option elements that the caller should itself scan.

   Otherwise, `optind' communicates from one call to the next
   how much of ARGV has been scanned so far.  */

extern int optind;

/* Callers store zero here to inhibit the error message `getopt' prints
   for unrecognized options.  */

extern int opterr;

/* Set to an option character which was unrecognized.  */

extern int optopt;

/* Describe the long-named options requested by the application.
   The LONG_OPTIONS argument to getopt_long or getopt_long_only is a vector
   of `struct option' terminated by an element containing a name which is
   zero.

   The field `has_arg' is:
   no_argument          (or 0) if the option does not take an argument,
   required_argument    (or 1) if the option requires an argument,
   optional_argument    (or 2) if the option takes an optional argument.

   If the field `flag' is not NULL, it points to a variable that is set
   to the value given in the field `val' when the option is found, but
   left unchanged if the option is not found.

   To have a long-named option do something other than set an `int' to
   a compiled-in constant, such as set a value from `optarg', set the
   option's `flag' field to zero and its `val' field to a nonzero
   value (the equivalent single-letter option character, if there is
   one).  For long options that have a zero `flag' field, `getopt'
   returns the contents of the `val' field.  */

struct option
{
#if defined (__STDC__) && __STDC__
  const char *name;
#else
  char *name;
#endif
  /* has_arg can't be an enum because some compilers complain about
     type mismatches in all the code that assumes it is an int.  */
  int has_arg;
  int *flag;
  int val;
};

/* Names for the values of the `has_arg' field of `struct option'.  */

#define no_argument             0
#define required_argument       1
#define optional_argument       2

#if defined (__GNU_LIBRARY__) || defined (__cplusplus) || defined (CYGWIN)
/* Many other libraries have conflicting prototypes for getopt, with
   differences in the consts, in stdlib.h.  To avoid compilation
   errors, only prototype getopt for the GNU C library.  */
extern int getopt (int argc, char *const *argv, const char *shortopts);
#else /* not __GNU_LIBRARY__ || C++ */
extern int getopt ();
#endif /* __GNU_LIBRARY__ || C++ */
extern int getopt_long (int argc, char *const *argv, const char *shortopts,
                        const struct option *longopts, int *longind);
extern int getopt_long_only (int argc, char *const *argv,
                             const char *shortopts,
                             const struct option *longopts, int *longind);

/* Internal only.  Users should not call this directly.  */
extern int _getopt_internal (int argc, char *const *argv,
                             const char *shortopts,
                             const struct option *longopts, int *longind,
                             int long_only);

#ifdef  __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* _GETOPT_H */