Commit cafea330 authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell

tcon: update and enhance documentation.

parent 5c559e7d
......@@ -8,6 +8,54 @@
* is then a set of macros which check the type canary before calling
* the generic routines.
*
* Example:
* #include <ccan/tcon/tcon.h>
* #include <stdio.h>
*
* // A simple container class. Can only contain one thing though!
* struct container {
* void *contents;
* };
* static inline void container_add_raw(struct container *c, void *p)
* {
* c->contents = p;
* }
* static inline void *container_get_raw(struct container *c)
* {
* return c->contents;
* }
*
* // This lets the user define their container type; includes a
* // "type canary" to check types against.
* #define DEFINE_TYPED_CONTAINER_STRUCT(name, type) \
* struct name { struct container raw; TCON(type canary); }
*
* // These macros make sure the container type and pointer match.
* #define container_add(c, p) \
* container_add_raw(&tcon_check((c), canary, (p))->raw, (p))
* #define container_get(c) \
* tcon_cast((c), canary, container_get_raw(&(c)->raw))
*
* // Now, let's define two different containers.
* DEFINE_TYPED_CONTAINER_STRUCT(int_container, int *);
* DEFINE_TYPED_CONTAINER_STRUCT(string_container, char *);
*
* int main(int argc, char *argv[])
* {
* struct int_container ic;
* struct string_container sc;
*
* // We would get a warning if we used the wrong types...
* container_add(&ic, &argc);
* container_add(&sc, argv[argc-1]);
*
* printf("Last arg is %s of %i arguments\n",
* container_get(&sc), *container_get(&ic) - 1);
* return 0;
* }
* // Given "foo" outputs "Last arg is foo of 1 arguments"
* // Given "foo bar" outputs "Last arg is bar of 2 arguments"
*
* License: Public domain
*
* Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
......
......@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
*
* This declares a _tcon member for a structure. It should be the
* last element in your structure; with sufficient compiler support it
* will not use any actual storage. tcon_to_raw() will compare
* will not use any actual storage. tcon_check() will compare
* expressions with one of these "type canaries" to cause warnings if
* the container is misused.
*
* A type of "void *" will allow tcon_to_raw() to pass on any (pointer) type.
* A type of "void *" will allow tcon_check() to pass on any (pointer) type.
*
* Example:
* // Simply typesafe linked list.
......
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