maint.mk has long had a syntax-check rule that requests that users use
STREQ (a, b) instead of open-coding (strcmp (a, b) == 0); but nothing in
gnulib actually provided that macro. This adds a new module to provide
it, and an inline function streq.
---
ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++
lib/stringops.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
modules/stringops | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 lib/stringops.h
create mode 100644 modules/stringops
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fc8a081..0462a74 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2014-05-25 Kieran Colford <colfo...@gmail.com>
+
+ stringops: add new module
+ maint.mk has long had a syntax-check rule that requests that users use
+ STREQ (a, b) instead of open-coding (strcmp (a, b) == 0); but nothing in
+ gnulib actually provided that macro. This adds a new module to provide
+ it, and an inline function streq.
+
2014-05-22 Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com>
getlogin_r-tests: check return value rather than errno
diff --git a/lib/stringops.h b/lib/stringops.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7242281
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/stringops.h
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/* General string operations.
+
+ Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ 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 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 General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+/* Written by Kieran Colford. */
+
+#ifndef _GL_STRINGOPS_H
+#define _GL_STRINGOPS_H
+
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+
+/* Test if the strings X and Y are equal. */
+#define STREQ(X, Y) (strcmp (X, Y) == 0)
+
+/* Test if the strings a and b are equal. */
+static inline bool
+streq (const char *a, const char *b)
+{
+ return strcmp (a, b) == 0;
+}
+
+#endif
diff --git a/modules/stringops b/modules/stringops
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..18d2992
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/stringops
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Description:
+Add useful macros for common string operations.
+
+Files:
+lib/stringops.h
+
+Depends-on:
+stdbool
+string
+
+configure.ac:
+
+Makefile.am:
+
+Include:
+"stringops.h"
+
+License:
+LGPLv2+
+
+Maintainer:
+Kieran Colford
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