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authorMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>1995-10-10 22:42:27 +0000
committerMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>1995-10-10 22:42:27 +0000
commit63f2cb4ee262c4c0b642684fcfac96279567700f (patch)
tree08b869373156b6a104ba640904e046be562de445 /libshouldbeinlibc
parent8111b8a7a7f671027cec3de1abd6d15e3f4f97f8 (diff)
(struct argp_state): Add PROCESSED_ARG field.
(ARGP_KEY_NO_ARGS): New macro.
Diffstat (limited to 'libshouldbeinlibc')
-rw-r--r--libshouldbeinlibc/argp.h25
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libshouldbeinlibc/argp.h b/libshouldbeinlibc/argp.h
index c834c2a1..67d5ab16 100644
--- a/libshouldbeinlibc/argp.h
+++ b/libshouldbeinlibc/argp.h
@@ -65,11 +65,27 @@ struct argp_state; /* " */
typedef error_t (*argp_parser_t)(int key, char *arg, struct argp_state *state);
/* Special values for the KEY argument to an argument parsing function.
- EINVAL should be returned if they aren't understood. */
-/* This is not an option at all, but rather a command line argument. */
+ EINVAL should be returned if they aren't understood.
+
+ The sequence of keys to parser calls is either (where opt is a user key):
+ (opt | ARGP_KEY_ARG)... ARGP_KEY_END
+ or opt... ARGP_KEY_NO_ARGS ARGP_KEY_END. */
+
+/* This is not an option at all, but rather a command line argument. If a
+ parser receiving this key returns success, the fact is recorded, and the
+ ARGP_KEY_NO_ARGS case won't be used. HOWEVER, if while processing the
+ argument, a parser function decrements the INDEX field of the state it's
+ passed, the option won't be considered processed; this is to allow you to
+ actually modify the argument (perhaps into an option), and have it
+ processed again. */
#define ARGP_KEY_ARG 0
/* There are no more command line arguments at all. */
#define ARGP_KEY_END 1
+/* Because it's common to want to do some special processing if there aren't
+ any non-option args, user parsers are called with this key if there
+ weren't any non-option arguments, before calling it again with
+ ARGP_KEY_END. */
+#define ARGP_KEY_NO_ARGS 2
/* An argp structure contains a set of getopt options declarations, a
function to deal with getting one, and an optional pointer to another
@@ -124,6 +140,11 @@ struct argp_state
/* The flags supplied to argp_parse. May be modified. */
unsigned flags;
+
+ /* Set to true after a non-option arg has been processed successfully and
+ used to decide whether to call user parsers with ARGP_KEY_NO_ARGS (which
+ see). May be modified. */
+ int processed_arg;
};
/* Flags for argp_parse (note that the defaults are those that are