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authorManuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>2016-05-26 16:48:15 +0100
committerManuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>2016-05-26 16:48:15 +0100
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+/* Locale dependent memory area transformation for comparison.
+ Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ under the terms of the GNU Lesser 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
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#ifndef AMEMXFRM_H
+#define AMEMXFRM_H
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+
+/* Generalization of strxfrm() to strings with embedded NUL bytes. */
+
+/* Transform the memory area [S..S+N-1] to a memory area, in such a way that
+ comparing (S1,N1) and (S2,N2) with memcoll() is equivalent to comparing
+ amemxfrm(S1,N1) and amemxfrm(S2,N2) with memcmp2().
+ The byte S[N] may be temporarily overwritten by this function, but will be
+ restored before this function returns.
+ The result of this function depends on the LC_COLLATE category of the
+ current locale.
+ If successful: If resultbuf is not NULL and the result fits into *lengthp
+ bytes, it is put in resultbuf, and resultbuf is returned. Otherwise, a
+ freshly allocated string is returned. In both cases, *lengthp is set to the
+ length of the returned string.
+ Upon failure, return NULL, with errno set. */
+extern char * amemxfrm (char *s, size_t n, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp);
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* AMEMXFRM_H */