gimme_alpha_types.h

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/*
** gimme_alpha_types.h
** 
** Made by Johnny Q. Hacker
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** 

    Copyright (C) 2008 Joseph Pingenot

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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    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
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** Started on  Wed Oct 22 15:41:55 2008 Johnny Q. Hacker
** Last update Wed Oct 22 15:41:55 2008 Johnny Q. Hacker
*/

#ifndef     GIMME_ALPHA_TYPES_H_
# define    GIMME_ALPHA_TYPES_H_

#include <glib-2.0/glib.h>
#include "gcc_hints.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/*TYPE NOTES*
 * COMPLEX numbers are packed doubles, i.e. double[2].
 */
enum data_types {
  INT_TYPE,
  LONG_INT_TYPE,
  FLOAT_TYPE,
  DOUBLE_TYPE,
  LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE,
  COMPLEX_TYPE,
  STRING_TYPE,
  BOOLEAN_TYPE
};

/*How the strings are formatted*/
enum data_type_string_format_type {
  STRING_FORMATTED_LIKE_C,
  STRING_FORMATTED_LIKE_FORTRAN
};

/*NOTE: COMPLEX always returns a NULL, because reading in/writing a
  complex requires two format characters.
*/
___const char* format_string_for_type_print(enum data_types t);
___const char* format_string_for_type_scan(enum data_types t);

___malloc void* string_to_data(char* s, enum data_types t);
___malloc void* string_to_data_x2(char* s1, char* s2, enum data_types t);
___malloc void* string_to_data_fortran(char* s, enum data_types t);
___malloc void* string_to_data_generic(char* s, enum data_types t, enum data_type_string_format_type fmt);
/**Gets a contiguous block of N values
 *\param s GNOME string vector (http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html#g-strsplit) with the strings containing the numbers
 *\param t data type to be dealt with
 *\return contiguous block of N t's.
 */
___malloc void* string_to_data_xN(gchar** s, enum data_types t);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif      /* !GIMME_ALPHA_TYPES_H_ */