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Updated traditional Chinese translations. Closes #9850.
committer: Paul Aurich <paul@darkrain42.org>
author | ambrose.li@gmail.com |
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date | Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:01:04 +0000 |
parents | 6bf32c9e15a7 |
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/* TODO: Can we just replace this whole thing with a GCache */ /** * @file stringref.h Reference-counted immutable strings * @ingroup core */ /* purple * * Purple is the legal property of its developers, whose names are too numerous * to list here. Please refer to the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this * source distribution. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 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 General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02111-1301 USA * */ #ifndef _PURPLE_STRINGREF_H_ #define _PURPLE_STRINGREF_H_ #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif typedef struct _PurpleStringref PurpleStringref; /** * Creates an immutable reference-counted string object. The newly * created object will have a reference count of 1. * * @param value This will be the value of the string; it will be * duplicated. * * @return A newly allocated string reference object with a refcount * of 1. */ PurpleStringref *purple_stringref_new(const char *value); /** * Creates an immutable reference-counted string object. The newly * created object will have a reference count of zero, and if it is * not referenced before the next iteration of the mainloop it will * be freed at that time. * * @param value This will be the value of the string; it will be * duplicated. * * @return A newly allocated string reference object with a refcount * of zero. */ PurpleStringref *purple_stringref_new_noref(const char *value); /** * Creates an immutable reference-counted string object from a printf * format specification and arguments. The created object will have a * reference count of 1. * * @param format A printf-style format specification. * * @return A newly allocated string reference object with a refcount * of 1. */ PurpleStringref *purple_stringref_printf(const char *format, ...); /** * Increase the reference count of the given stringref. * * @param stringref String to be referenced. * * @return A pointer to the referenced string. */ PurpleStringref *purple_stringref_ref(PurpleStringref *stringref); /** * Decrease the reference count of the given stringref. If this * reference count reaches zero, the stringref will be freed; thus * you MUST NOT use this string after dereferencing it. * * @param stringref String to be dereferenced. */ void purple_stringref_unref(PurpleStringref *stringref); /** * Retrieve the value of a stringref. * * @note This value should not be cached or stored in a local variable. * While there is nothing inherently incorrect about doing so, it * is easy to forget that the cached value is in fact a * reference-counted object and accidentally use it after * dereferencing. This is more problematic for a reference- * counted object than a heap-allocated object, as it may seem to * be valid or invalid nondeterministically based on how many * other references to it exist. * * @param stringref String reference from which to retrieve the value. * * @return The contents of the string reference. */ const char *purple_stringref_value(const PurpleStringref *stringref); /** * Compare two stringrefs for string equality. This returns the same * value as strcmp would, where <0 indicates that s1 is "less than" s2 * in the ASCII lexicography, 0 indicates equality, etc. * * @param s1 The reference string. * * @param s2 The string to compare against the reference. * * @return An ordering indication on s1 and s2. */ int purple_stringref_cmp(const PurpleStringref *s1, const PurpleStringref *s2); /** * Find the length of the string inside a stringref. * * @param stringref The string in whose length we are interested. * * @return The length of the string in stringref */ size_t purple_stringref_len(const PurpleStringref *stringref); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* _PURPLE_STRINGREF_H_ */